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GREATER LOS ANGELES and 
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 

THEIR PORTRAITS AND CHRONOLOGICAL 
RECORD OF THEIR CAREERS 






ROBERT J. BURDETTE 

EDITOR 



THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY 

Chicago Los Angeles New York 

1906 






LIBRARY of CONGRESS 

Two Copies Received 

NOV 19 1907 

Copyriftii tntry 

Dec 3 '1<'' 
CLASSA „XKc. No, 

COPY B. ._. 



Copyright 1906 by 
The Lewis Publishing Co. 



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PREFACE. 

IN harmony with the original purpose and 
plan, this volume is "An historical record of 
representative men of affairs in Los Angeles 
and Southern California — combining in one vol- 
ume the human interest always present in por- 
traits together with the instructive facts of 
biography." It is with more than ordinary sat- 
isfaction that the publishers send this book forth 
for public appreciation, since they believe that in 
general scope and in details it more than fulfils 
the promises made in the prospectus. None will 
question that the book is a permanent contribu- 
tion to the history of Los Angeles and Southern 
California. The fact that the men whose lives 
form the biographical basis of the work are fore- 
most representatives of city, state and nation 
makes the facts and illustrations herein con- 
tained a historical monument which will be 
prized even more by later generations than by 
the present. As regards this element of the 



PREFACE 



book's value, it is only necessary to suggest how 
much we would value a similar collection of por- 
traits of the men who made the history of our 
nation one hundred years ago. 

So much may be said of the salient purposes 
and contents of the work. Of the mechanical 
and artistic execution, the most cursory exam- 
ination w^ill prove its superiority and excellence. 
The majorit}^ of the portraits are recent, the pho- 
tographs having been taken expressly for repro- 
duction in this volume, a process to which both 
engraver and printer have lent their highest 
skill. Durability and elegance have been con- 
stant ideals in the making of the volume, a per- 
manent and handsome dress being considered 
a proper adornment to worthy contents. Ut- 
most care has been employed to secure accuracy 
in the personal records, typewritten copies and 
prints of the matter intended for publication 
having been submitted at least once to the per- 
sons concerned, and unusual diligence has been 
exercised in every detail. 

The Publishers. 



INDEX 



PAGE 



Albright, Harrison 238 

Allerton, Samuel W 88 

Bacon, Walter R 180 

Baldwin, James V ^-7 

Bean, Jacob 200 

Beckett, Wesley W 216 

Bergstrom, George E 68 

Bittinger, George E 161 

Blanciiard, F. W 209 

Borden, Gail 151 

Bradshaw, William G 120 

Braly, John H 62 

Bridge, Norman 1 23 

Brodbeck, H. W i77 

Bulla, Robert N 128 

Burdette, Robert J 34 

Busch, Adolphus 7^ 

Butler, Sidney A 232 

Butterfield, Frederick D 240 

Cass. Alonzo B 134 

Chapman, Ervin S 197 

Clark, Eli P 90 

Clark. Joseph H 154 

Clark, J. Ross 94 

Cobb, Edward S 104 

Cochran, George 1 52 

Davies, Edward W 102 

Davis, Charles C 193 

Davis, Harry V 137 

DeLongpre, Paul 64 

Dockweiler. Isidore B 230 



INDEX 



Dorsey, Stephen W 74 

Douglass, Frank M 142 

Drake, Charles R 148 

Drake. James C 198 

Eddy, J. W 84 

Elliott, John M 36 

Emery, Grenville C 220 

Ewing, Charles 182 

Farish, Oscar E 113 

Forrester, E. A 1 72, 

Foshay, James A 125 

Fowler, Rohert A 166 

Freeman, Edwin W 175 

I'rost, Charles H 49 

Gabel, Thomas R 208 

Garland, William M 129 

Garnsey, L. T 82 

Gibbon, Thomas E 144 

Grant, U. S., Hotel 233 

Greeley, John P 1 70 

Green, G. G 146 

(iregg-, Frederic \V 192 

Griffith, G. W. E 184 

Hammack, Daniel M 236 

Harper, Arthur C 176 

Hellman, Herman W 70 

Hiatt, William M 196 

Holley, William V 210 

Hubbard, A. G 80 

Hughes, Thomas 190 

Huntington, Henry E 54 

Jess, Stoddard 100 

Johnson. Joseph H 42 

Jones, John P 72 

Kendall, B. O no 



INDEX 



Kinney, Abbot 214 

Kislingburv, George 126 

Koebig, Adolph H 69 

Laughlin, Homer 118 

Lawler, Oscar 1 05 

Lee, Bradner W 1 78 

Lewis, John T. H 191 

Lindley, Walter 132 

Louis, E.J 202 

Lowe, Thaddeus S. C 219 

Lumniis, Charles F 218 

Marsh, Norman F 212 

Marsh, Robert 122 

Mathews, John R 85 

May, Ernest H 107 

McCarthy, J. Harvey 225 

Mclntyre, Robert 44 

Mead, William 124 

Merrill, John A 188 

Merrill, Leonard 112 

Mesmer, Joseph 152 

Meyer, Jacob E 211 

Moore, Ernest C 222 

Mueller, Oscar C 183 

Mulford, S. P 116 

Neuer, W. W 130 

Nevin, William G 92 

Newby, Henry 114 

Norton, John H 96 

Palmer, Edwin O 174 

Parkinson, John 66 

Patterson, John L 206 

Patterson, Wilson C 50 

Pease, Niles 58 

Perry, William H , 162 

Pirtle, John A 213 



INDEX 



Pomeroy, A. E 1 56 

Potter, Milo M 98 

Pridham, Richard W 194 

Rindge, Frederick H 40 

Roberts, E. D 78 

Rowan, Robert A 106 

Rowland. William R 228 

Schneider, Jacob M 136 

Scott, Joseph 86 

Selph, E. E 204 

Sherman, Moses H loi 

Simons, Reuben G 168 

Slavin, Matthew 140 

Smiley, Albert K 237 

Smith, Charles W 1 58 

Snyder, Meredith P 160 

Stimson, Charles M 186 

Summerland, Theodore 181 

Thompson, Newton \\^ 205 

Toll, Charles H 226 

Townsend, William H 234 

Trask, Dummer K 103 

Trueworthy, John W 164 

Tupper, Wilbur S 138 

VanNuys, Isaac N 38 

V^edder, William H 60 

Wankowski, Robert 224 

Washburn, William J 56 

Waters, Russell J 46 

Watson, Charles P. V 223 

Weid, Otto 167 

White, William A 1 50 

Whittlesey, Charles F 108 

Wigdal, O. J 203 

Wiggins, Frank 48 



FOREWORD. 



YOU sit on the western piazza and watch 
the sun go down. You Hnger long, held 
by the after-glow that tints the heavens 
like the heart of a shell. A crescent of silver 
gleams in the purpling skies. A star shines out 
below the young moon. In orderly splendor the 
glittering constellations flame out in their march 
across the fields of night. Shadows of pine and 
palm whisper softly under the kisses of the 
fragrant winds. Incense of rose and heliotrope 
mingle with the odor of the orange-trees. The 
silence and star-shine and perfume is prayer and 
praise. Your soul worships at the shrine of per- 
fect nature. An unseen chalice of melody is 
tilted somewhere in the upper darkness — a ripple 
of music, clear and sweet, spilled from its heart 
of rapture, runs down through the shadows and 
fragrance — a mocking bird is singing his hymn 



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to the night. Your soul overflows with a sense 
of beauty, and joy. and peace. It is not a "Mid- 
summer Xig-ht's Dream." Such a scene could 
not be presented "In a wood near Athens." It 
is a ^lid-winter Night in Southern California. 
An ordinary, commonplace calendar night, one 
of many such that "quickly dream away the 
time." With such a winter season, and a sum- 
mer time that fits it perfectly, small wonder it is 
that every land under the sun sends its worship- 
ping pilgrims hither. The wonder is. that so 
many men stay away. 

"Climate'' is California's principal asset. Our 
eastern friends tell us the State deserves no 
credit for that. Xo. Nor does New Orleans de- 
serve the credit of creating the Gulf of Mexico. 
Nor did St. Louis invent the ^lississippi river. 
Chicago did not dam up Lake Michigan ; she 
only built the drainage canal, which is diflferent. 
There is even an old tradition that the famous 
Harbor was there before Boston was located, 
which is impossible. All these great natural ad- 



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vantages antedated by many ages the great 
cities which have grown up because of them, de- 
spite the shrewd observation of the thoughtful 
man who had been impressed by the fact that 
Providence had wisely ordained that all the great 
rivers should flow past the large cities. AA'e re- 
luctantlv admit that neither the '49ers nor the 
Native Sons made the "glorious climate of Cali- 
fornia." ^len didn't make the climate. But they 
made the state. ]^Ien make cities, not because of 
natural advantages, but in spite of natural disad- 
vantages. Else had the east wind prevented any 
Boston; the swamp had vetoed Chicago; the 
morass had prohibited New Orleans, and the 
grim specter of the ''Great American Desert" 
had forever isolated California. 

It was destined to be a land wherein fact 
should read like romance, and all the fiction born 
of California genius should read tamel}-, beside 
the quiet wonders of its history. It's very name 
sprang from romantic dreams, for "it is taken 
from an old Spanish romance, called Sergas de 



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Esplandian (Exploits of Esplandian), by Or- 
donez de Montalvo, translator of Amadis de 
Gaul, printed about 1510. California was a 
mythical island on the right hand of the Indies, 
very near the Terrestrial paradise, peopled with 
Amazons and Griffins." (Charles F. Lummis.) 
God was very good to California, then, at her 
christening, giving to her a name that was char- 
acteristically descriptive, especially as to geo- 
graphical location, before some closet geog- 
rapher should name it "North" Something, be- 
cause there was a portion of the earth to the 
south of it, or "New" Something, because there 
was already in existence a country so utterly 
unlike it that the most distorted imagination 
could detect no suggestion of similarity between 
them. "A Good Name is to be chosen rather 
than great riches." Happy California! That 
the day of her christening should have come in 
the time of originality in nomenclature, before 
the growing world had fallen upon the evil days 
of naming towns and states by the simple, time- 



AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 



saving and brain-sparing use of carbon sheets 
and multiple cop) ing presses. Christened at the 
fount of romance, Cold Fact smiled at the appo- 
siteness of name and description, and adopted 
the dream-child for his own. So he gave to her 
a dower of valleys in which never a flake of snow 
flutters down from the highest clouds, and look- 
ing down upon them, mountains that wear white 
crown of wanter all the months through all the 
summer years. Deserts lower than the sea, and 
a mountain higher than the clouds — Death Val- 
ley, the lowest depression, and Mt. Whitney, the 
highest elevation in the United States. He 
clothed his daughter of Romance with nothing 
but truthful superlatives. He gave her the scanti- 
est, sourest, most unpalatable wild fruits of her 
own, and made her the most bountiful step-moth- 
er of all the fruits the earth can bear. He famished 
her with deserts, barren and desolate, and said 
to her, "Here, not in the mines of gold, is your 
wealth." And in one year the harvest of her gold 
mines was a paltry $16,989,044, while the golden 



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harvest of her farms and gardens was $131,690,- 
606, more than seven times as much as all her 
gold that year could buy. He taught her how to 
waste her rivers from their torrent beds, and 
scatter them over the land in irrigating ditches, 
so that the shallow river a child could ford be- 
came a stream of fertility, an oasis of blossom 
and fruit and shrub twenty miles wide. On every 
page of her unfolding history and growing great- 
ness, he wrote down paradoxes that her writers 
of fiction hesitated to use, so that the guileless 
tenderfoot believed in "Colonel Jack Hazard," 
and "Truthful James," and "Bill Nye," in refined 
and rigidly moral gamblers, in pure-minded har- 
lots and generous stage robbers with university 
degrees, but shook their heads and said, "Oh, 
California stories!" with pitying toleration, such 
as one uses when speaking of the heathen in his 
blindness, when told of the "Big Trees" and the 
Yo Semite, and eight crops of peas in one year 
from the same field. Even the meditative and 
unromantic cow, contemplatively chewing her 



AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA n 



cud of alfalfa under the great branches of the live 
oak, looked down with placid contempt on the 
strenuous efforts of the gold mines to produce 
sixteen millions of dollars, while in the same 
period, in her quiet simple life in the meadows 
she added twelve million dollars to the wealth 
of her state in milk, butter and cheese, a rivalry 
which is enough" to make the old "49ers" turn 
over in their graves. The gold is only useful to 
buy more cows, and improved agricultural 
machinery, I>os Angeles county is not famous 
for its gold mines — although one may stand on 
the street and bu}' mines as they come along, for 
she owns mines in nearly every district in Cal- 
ifornia, Nevada, Arizona and Mexico — but it has 
nearly seven thousand farms, and the transmuta- 
tion of farm products into minted gold is just as 
sure as the mining process, and requires far less 
blue print and promoter's eloquence. 

But the climate doesn't deserve exclusive 
credit for all this. The climate was here in all its 
perfection of beauty and gentleness in 1781. And 



12 GREATER LOS ANGELES 



doubtless the cattle enjoyed it. For the popula- 
tion of California then consisted of the two 
classes into which the discerning cow-bo}^ still 
divides the denizens of the earth — "cows and 
humans," putting the cows first, of course, as the 
more valuable and more intelligent. Los An- 
geles county, and all California round about it — 
it was all the one — was a great pasture, and the 
horned herds that roamed over it would have 
hard work to secure "honorable mention" and 
useful death in the "scalawag" class in any 
reputable stock yards of today — long bodied, 
longer legged, and still longer horned; fleet 
of foot and scant of beef — the milkless 
kine of Pharaoh. The only product of any 
value they yielded was their hide and tallow. 
When that was taken ofif, and out, there 
was nothing left. The people lived the sim- 
])le life. The "first families" of Los Angeles, 
the founders to whose illustrious memory we 
have neglected to rear a lofty monument, are 
not represented by their descendants among the 



AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 13 



aristocratic loungers in the California Club, nor 
are they corralling the passing lion in the Friday 
Morning, or studying civic righteousness in 
Ebell. "Our Glorious Founders" were a poly- 
glot lot, which Mr. Venus would have classified 
as "human warious." There were eleven fami- 
lies. Not a man of them could read or write. 
Two Spaniards there were, and both of these had 
Indian wives. And one of the proud Castilians, 
Jose de Lara, of aristocratic name, was very 
shortly deported from the colony for general 
uselessness to himself and the community. The 
historians tell us, however, that Jose's Castilian 
stock was somewhat adulterated. But Antonio 
Felix Villavalencio was warranted "absolutely 
pure." He had an Indian helpmeet; Jose Na- 
varro, Basilio Rosas, an Indian, had mulatto 
wives ; so had Manuel Camaro and Jose Moreno, 
ihemselves mulattos, also Luis Quintero, a 
negro; Jose Vanegas, Alejandro Rosas, and Pablo 
Rodriguez, were Indians, with Indian wives. 
Thus laden with humble souls and aristocratic 



14 GREATER LOS ANGELES 



names our Mayflower came into port September 
4th, 1 78 1, and with religious ceremonies, con- 
sisting of a mass and a salvo of musketry, our 
step-fathers formally founded the Pueblo de 
Nuestra Senora La Reina de Los Angeles, on 
the banks of the Rio de Porciuncula, which 
changed its name to Los Angeles when it went 
dry. The city never having passed through that 
process of regeneration retains its original name 
unto this day. It takes an earthquake of the cen- 
tury class to convert a California city of the first 
class to prohibition, and Los Angeles is not in the 
earthquake belt. Our forefathers possessed the 
true Los Angelan spirit. They built first an irri- 
gating ditch and then they laid out town lots and 
acreage property, deported three of their number, 
one white man and two negroes for general 
worthlessness, wisely and thriftily confiscating 
their property for the common good. The re- 
maining colonists — twenty-eight all told, includ- 
ing the children — went to work, erected public 
buildings and a church, and began to do business. 



AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 15 



All of Los Angeles was in that little (acorn?) 
They weren't a people to worry — that folly comes 
with the higher civilization — and they watched 
themselves grow. In nine years the population 
had increased to 141 ; multiplied itself by five in 
nine years — a record-breaking challenge for suc- 
ceeding generations. The city thus early estab- 
lished the habit of growing, which is to this day 
emphasized by prophetic and optimistic real 
estate "pobladores." The padres were teaching 
the Mission Indians the arts of agriculture and 
architecture, and the useful trades. Los Angeles 
emerged from its pole huts and erected palatial 
structures of adobe, one story high and absolutely 
fire-proof. In 1800 the population was 315, the 
herds of horses and cattle numbered 12,500 head; 
wheat was $1.66 per bushel and the crop was 
over 8,000 bushels. "Dollar wheat" didn't get 
into politics that year. They paid their taxes in 
grain. They had a mail from Mexico once a 
month, but as not more than half a dozen of the 
citizens could read or write, there was no com- 



16 GREATER LOS ANGELES 



plaint when one or two mails missed. In 1818 
two Americans became citizens of Los Angeles, 
Joseph Chapman of Massachusetts, and a negro 
named Fisher. Things moved with symptoms of 
"hustle." Chapman built the first mill in South- 
ern California, and the gods of things that are to 
be began to grind their grist. Three years after 
that American mill began its tic-tac, Mexico 
achieved her independence. In 1822 the flag of 
the Empire of Mexico floated over Los Angeles 
and the Spanish power in America had begun 
the march that led to the bottom of the sea. Three 
years of imperial sway, and the banner of the Re- 
public of Mexico supplanted the imperial stand- 
ard, the rapid change of flags fluttering by like 
the decorations of coming Fiestas. Los Angeles 
was an agricultural community. Its manufac- 
tories at this time consisted exclusively of dis- 
tilleries and wineries. These were very success- 
ful, as an election in 1826 was declared void by 
the governor on the ground that "the candidates 
were vagabonds, drunkards, and worse." Graft 



AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 17 



is not a modern disease in the body politic. Our 
fathers also ate wild grapes. Some time in 1820 
Los Angeles was discovered by Boston, and a 
thriving trade in hide and tallow was established, 
the Boston ships bringing out assorted cargoes. 
The blessings of Boston baked beans did not 
reach the land until later, for the canning in- 
dustry still slumbered in the brain of inventive 
man. But the Los Angelans had a base-born, 
sable-hued, bean of their own, upon which, know- 
ing nothing superior, they thrived happily. The 
American invasion continued. About 1829 the 
precursor of all the signs that dot the landscape 
and hide the vacant lots and crown the cornices 
of the highest buildings, appeared — "Rice and 
Temple." And they were New England Yan- 
kees. Los Angeles was marching on the way 
of its destiny, and new comers were already 
dropping the "Pueblo de Nuestra Senora La 
Reina de" from their letter heads. Temple & 
Rice introduced three or four new and distinct 
pronunciations of the rest of the name, which are 



i8 GREATER LOS ANGELES 



still most successfully imitated, with intricate 
variations, by their 200,000 successors. 

If ignorance is bliss, the people were happ}'. 
But they were not unmindful of the blessings of 
education. In 18 17 an old soldier, Maximo Pina, 
opened a school and taught the children enough 
in two years to last them through the next dec- 
ade. Two years of school in forty-six would 
not make scholars of a community. Indeed, it 
would barely qualify them for writing dialect 
stories and ''best selling books." They felt that, 
and in 1827 Luciano X^aldez was employed at a 
salary of $15 per month, to teach the young idea 
how and whom to shoot. He struck for $30 in his 
second year and resigned. Fifteen dollars was 
the value placed upon a schoolmaster until after 
the American "assimilation," even in the flush 
times of '49. In 1850 ^^he salary was suddenly 
increased to $60 per month and house rent, and 
the schoolmaster took his place among the pluto- 
crats. 

But during all the dearth of public schools it 



AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA iq 



must be remembered that the padres were teach- 
ers at the Missions. They taught along poly- 
technic lines and largely on the Dotheboys hall 
system. When the neophyte learned to spell 
hide, he was sent out to tan one. And at irregu- 
lar but very short intervals his own was properly 
tanned by the good padre on general principles. 
He, and the public school teacher as well, were 
instructors after the fashion of Saxe's "Peda- 
gogue" — "Ye youngster's pate to stimulate. He 
beat ye other end." The teachers in the public 
school, up to 1850 were, as a rule, old soldiers, 
selected because of their physical strength and 
good fighting qualities. 

With the expulsion of the Spanish power came 
the downfall of the Missions. The country was 
beginning to fill up with people — that is, here 
and there was a family or a man who wanted to 
"locate." The Missions, established under Span- 
ish rule, had a land monopoly that would make 
the Standard Oil hide its diminished head when 
the subject of monopolies was introduced. From 



20 GREATER LOS ANGELES 



San Francisco to San Diego they held about all 
the land that was worth holding, and no settler 
could obtain a grant of land for his homestead, 
save with the consent of the nearest padres. The 
ranches owned by the Mission San Gabriel con- 
tained about 1,500,000 acres. And this immense 
tract of land never supported a population of 
more than 1,800 neophytes. Naturally, people 
on the outside clamored for a new division of the 
earth. The Mexican Congress decreed the secu- 
larization of the Missions and the distribution 
of their property in August, 1833. The great 
Mission holdings were divided into smaller 
ranches and passed into the hands of actual set- 
tlers. From that time the countr}^ improved in 
wealth and population more rapidly than ever 
before. In 1836 California experienced a throb 
of the Fourth of July and declared itself "a free 
and sovereign state," with Juan Bautista Alva- 
rado cast for the part of George Washington, 
and twenty-five American hunters and trappers, 
under command of a Tennessean named Graham, 



AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 21 



playing" the French allies. Los Angeles remained 
loyal to the mother country, and in the battles 
which followed, her heroes displayed staunch 
loyalty and good sprinting qualities, which latter 
on several occasions saved their lives. The 
"war" ended, rather confusedly, in the triumph 
of the revolutionists, the appointment of Alva- 
rado as governor, the allegiance of California to 
the Home Government, and the downfall of in- 
dependence. There is nothing on earth that re- 
sembles the conduct and results of the early wars 
in California, save the present water-rights laws. 
Whoever understands the one can solve the 
other. At 4 o'clock on the afternoon of August 
13th, 1846, "manifest destiny" knocked at the 
gates of Los Angeles. Fremont and Stockton 
entered the city with 500 real soldiers and no 
proclamation, California was benevolently assim- 
ilated, and Joshua had added to his rightful in- 
heritance by the simple act of "putting down his 
foot." Los Angeles belonged to "us," and the 
first "native son" in a land older than the pyra- 



22 GREATER LOS ANGELES 



mids got himself ready to be born and organize 
a "parlor." The men who were to make Califor- 
nia, however, had got born some time before, and 
were on their way to introduce the strenuous 
life. 

At the time of the capture of Los Angeles the 
white population of California was about 5,000, 
of whom less than 500 were Americans. Two 
years later a man found a grain of gold in the 
mud of a tail-race, and within a year thereafter 
that tiny magnet had drawn 42,000 people from 
the eastern states and all over the world to the 
new gold field, and California was "discovered." 
In ten years the population had grown to nearly 
100,000. In i860 it was 379,994. Today it is 
more than one and one-half millions, and the 
greater part of the increase has been in the south. 
Los Angeles, which came into the Union in 1851 
with a population of 1,610, is now the 30th city 
in the United States, numbering 238,000 souls. 
In 1850, Los Angeles county included the present 
counties of San Bernardino, Orange and about 



AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 23 



half of Kern, and the official!)' recorded popula- 
tion was 3.530. In the rush of '49, Los Angeles 
county profited a little with the rest of the terri- 
tory, but the development of the mines in the 
south, with other developments, followed that 
date. And in 1906 the value of "the gold 
that grows on trees" in Southern California cit- 
rus groves, is estimated at $30,000,000. Hides, 
once the great staple of the country, South- 
ern California, added but a petty paltry $150,- 
000 to her wealth. The value of the steer 
saves his hide in these days of prosperity, while 
"humans" pay more for a pair of boots or 
a suit case than the whole hide is worth. 
Such is the difference between hide and leather. 
The area of the "pueblo" has grown to be 44 
square miles, and with an eye to the annexation 
of the entire countA'. Nearly 200 churches min- 
ister to the spiritual needs of the people, while 
the processional and migratory "religions" which 
howl on the streets and camp for a night on the 
vacant lots — of which there are verv few left in 



24 GREATER LOS ANGELES 



Los Angeles — defy the activity of the statistician. 
The Salvation Army and the Volunteers of 
America have homes commodious, attractive and 
in every way most excellently appointed. The 
public school system of the state stands in the 
first rank in the Union, the census of 1900 show- 
ing- five State Normal Schools, 120 High Schools, 
7,1 IQ kindergartens, primary and grammar 
schools; with a total of 7,706 teachers, 372,352 
pupils, and $19,135,722 value of school property; 
two great free universities and an enrollment of 
one college student to every 419 of total popula- 
tion — a larger proportion than is reached in any 
other state. 

The bank clearances of Los Angeles exceed 
those of an}^ city west of the Rocky Mountains, 
San Francisco alone excepted — and at the pres- 
ent writing (May, 1906), San Francisco not ex- 
cepted, for striking reasons. Half a century ago, 
Los Angeles county was a ranche — hardly that — 
a ranche with grazing lands, for the assessed 
value of all the real estate in the then enormous 



AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 25 



county was but $74^,696 in 1852, and the value of 
improvements but $301,947. Today, sixty-one 
towns and cities dot the area of the smaller 
county, and the assessor's total valuation of the 
county, after equalization by the state board, 
for 1905, was $201,509,785. 

If one knows just where to look for it, there is 
in Los Angeles an adobe house, there may be 
one or two or several others— crumbling land- 
marks of adobe days and adobe men. They were 
good houses and good men in their day. They 
were the best of their time and place. All honor 
to their memory. It should be kept green by the 
preservation of at least one adobe house. But 
the great sky-scrapers of steel and terra cotta, 
and reinforced concrete easily crush the sun-dried 
walls w^hich sheltered the simple life. The intel- 
lectual poverty of the moneyed tenderfoot, who 
unable to pronounce "El Camino" insists on 
changing the name of the street on which he 
lives to the name of a way-back street on which 
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class of people who date their letters "Troy" be- 
cause they cannot spell "Skaneateles/' The an- 
tiquity of a city 225 years old is not that of Baal- 
bec, but it is stifificiently venerable to demand the 
reverence of these days of gallop and gulp. The 
destruction of the old names, memorials of the 
people who laid the foundations for all our pres- 
ent day prosperity and glory, is a profanation, 
like the erasure of an honored name from a tomb- 
stone. There is enough of pathos in the fact 
that the race which christened the city should 
have been so utterh^ dispossessed of their inher- 
itance. It adds tragedy to the pathos when we 
obliterate even the names of their fathers. De- 
spite the movement to make spelling easy for 
lazy illiterates, let California's native and 
adopted sons alike, continue to "spell hickory 
with a j," and grant the transplanted tenderfoot 
dispensation to "pronounce her as she is spelled, 
until he learns to say her as she is spoke." 

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And the men of California, like its fruits and 
flowers, are largely adopted children. There is 
onl}^ one generation to the manner born. The 
speech of the Californian betraveth him not, for 
every dialect of civilization is here. A little pure 
Spanish and much patois of Mexican-Indian- 
Spanish whisper into the Babel of today the 
echoes of a romantic yesterday. Aspirations and 
ex-aspirations from the tight little island have a 
right to be called native Californian so long as 
we sing the charms of the English rose, of which 
we have adopted everything save the English 
perfume. The "sunny land of France" speaks 
the language of the boulevards in her own Los 
Angeles colony and journal. The Basque shep- 
herd cares for his snowy fleeces on the sheep 
ranges. The New England twang blends with 
the soft Southern accent, and a broad touch of 
Pennsylvania Dutch establishes the Dunkard's 
right to the privilege of the native born. The 
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and due proportion into the blend that we call 
California. Russia sent her children here — or 
rather thev came without beino- sent — runaway 
children, very much against the paternal will, and 
they brought the strength and hope and liberty- 
loving spirit that the mother country now so 
sorely needs, and which the kinder step-mother 
so gladly accepts as her own. Not only the 
orient but the Occident — the nations who dwell 
where the East and West join — China and Japan, 
are among us if not of us. Travelers tell us of 
the vivid panorama of varied humanity that 
streams past "Shephard's" in Cairo. You will 
touch elbows with a greater variety of men in 
the streets of Los Angeles. Only, the pict- 
uresqueness is lacking. The people have become 
amalgamated. They dress like Christians. At 
least, they dress like the rest of us. 

The immigrants who have made modern Los 
Angeles were so unlike the ordinary conception 
of immigrants that a new name had to be applied 
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theirs the toilsome journey across the continent 
or around the storm-washed Horn. Not tor 
them the daily trek and the nightly camp in the 
midst of alarms and cactus, Indians, grizzlies, 
and rattlers ; not theirs the weary pilgrimage 
through the alkali lakes and the desert dust, 
with the complaining wheels shrieking their an- 
guish to the sun-burned and wind-dried axle; 
the dying cattle and the long and repeated hours 
and days of despair and fear. About 8,000 came 
to Los Angeles in that manner in the decade of 
1850 and '60. The rest of them waited for the 
completion of the transcontinental railways and 
came with no one to molest them save the train- 
robber and no one to make them afraid but the 
porter. In the ten years following the breaking 
out of the Civil war 4,000 came. Between 1870 
and 1880, 10,000 home-seekers came by the easy 
way of the rail. The ten years following saw 
70,000 added to the city's population, and the 
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forests or dike out the sea. They came prepared 
to buy their homes; they came from homes of 
comfort to make homes still more comfortable. 
They were not flying from persecution or tyr- 
rany in the eastern states; they were not, as a 
rule, driven here by stress and pinch of poverty. 
They did not have to come. They wanted to. 
True, some of them came with a diminished cap- 
italization of health, but even then they came 
because they wanted to increase their vital hold- 
ings. Men came here not to be made by the 
country, but to help make the city, county and 
state. The east sent to California her best, and 
California made them better. The w^ork of bet- 
terment was mutual. Southern California was 
moulded by these immigrants of education, 
thrift, and morality. It was never the California 
of Bret Harte, of refined stage robbers, chaste 
and sensitive women of the street and camp, and 
high-minded and honest blacklegs. The new- 
comers builded churches, public schools, libra- 
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progressive civilization. It was not a drunken, 
riotous California. Prohibition became popular. 
One of the largest and most beautiful cities in 
Los Angeles county, the most prosperous outside 
the great county capital, was founded as a tem- 
perance town and has not had a saloon within 
its limits for the past twenty-five years. There 
are half a score prohibition towns now in the 
county, and the great city of Los Angeles re- 
stricting the number of saloons to 200, has fewer 
of them in proportion to its population than any 
other city of its size in the United States. Not 
"wide-openness," but temperance, morality and 
industry, with an unmeasured faith in the country 
itself, have been the great elements in the pros- 
perity of Los Angeles county, and the publishers 
take pleasure in presenting to the community of 
the county a few of the men who have helped to 
build greater, and later, and better Los Angeles 
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ROBERT JONES BURDETTE, Pasadena. 

Humorist, author, lecturer, preacher, philanthropist; 
Born July 30, 1841; Greensboro, Pa. Educated in 
public schools, Peoria, 111.; private soldier in 47th 
Illinois Infantry; rei)orter on Peoria (111.) Tran- 
script, lsr)0-7'3; editor Peoria Evening Review. 1872- 
75; editor Burlington (la.) Hmvk-Eye, 1876-84. 
Popular lecturer. 1876-190.^. Licensed to preach, 
Lower Merion Baptist Church (Bryn Mawr, Pa.), 
1897; ordained to the Baptist ministry Temple Bap- 
tist Church, Los Angeles, Cal., Aug., 1903. Mar- 
ried, first, Caroline Spaulding Garrett, Peoria, 111., 
March 4, 1870 (died, May, 1884); second, Clara 
Bradley Baker, Pasadena, Cal., March 27, 1898. 
His home, "Sunnycrest," on Orange Grove Ave., 
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JOHN MACKAV ELLIOTT, Los Angeles 

Rorn in South Carolina, October, 1844. During 
Civil War was a private in Signal Corps, Confed- 
erate Army. Came to Los Angeles from Savannah. 
Ga., 1S70. In the affairs of Los .\ngeles he has 
performed an important part for more than thirty 
years. Entered First National Bank as bookkeeper 
in 1S81; assistant cashier, 1883; cashier, 18S,'), 
president since 189;?; always known as a conserva- 
tive banker. One of his chief labors has been to 
secure for Los .\ngelcs an adequate supply of pure 
water. Was director of Old City Water Co.. and 
instrumental from that side in sale to city, since 
then has been on Hoard of Water Commissioners 
and prominent in Owens River project. Member 
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ISAAC NEWTON VAN NUVS, Los Angeles 

Born West Sparta, Livingston Co., New York, No- 
vember 20, 1835. Educated in public schools and 
Lima Academy. Engaged in farming in New York 
until coming to Napa county. California, in 1S65, 
whence he removed to Los Angeles in 1871. For 
many years engaged in the live stock and farming 
business in the San Fernando X'alley. In 189(3 
erected Hotel Van Nuys: president Los Angeles 
Farming & Milling Co.; vice-president and director 
I'armers' and Merchants' National Bank, and di- 
rector German-American Savings Bank; member Los 
Angeles Commandery, No. 9, Knights Templar, and 
California Club. Republican in politics. Married 
1880, Miss Susanna Lankershim, and has three chil- 
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FREDERICK II. RIXDGE (Dec'd), Los Angeles 

Born in Cambridge, Mass., 1S57. Educated at Cam- 
bridge, student at Harvard, class 1S70. Pliilan- 
thropist, diirina; lifetime gave Cambridge a ^Manual 
Training School. Public Library. City Hall and other 
gifts, also large amounts to different benevolences 
throughout the country. President Conservative 
Life Insurance Co., V. M. C. A., Sinaloa Land 
Companies and various reclamation and development 
companies in California; vice-president Union Oil 
Company; director Edison Electric Company, of 
banks and other substantial businesses, besides his 
various interests in the East. Owner of Malibu 
Rnncho. JJied at ^'reka, California, August 29, 
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RT. REV. JOSEPH HORSFALL JOHNSON, D.D., 

Los Angeles 
Born Schenectady, N. Y., June 7, 1S47. Gradu 
ated Williams College, 1870; General Theological 
Seminary, 1873. Ordained priest, 1874. In charge 
Holy Trinity Church, Highland, N. Y., 1873-9; 
rector Trinity Church. Bristol, R. I., 1879-81; St. 
Peter's Church, West Chester, N. Y., 1881-6; Christ 
Church, Detroit, 1886-96; Bishop Los Angeles 
(Protestant Episcopal) since 1896. Married June 
14, 1881, Miss Isabel Greene Davis. Member Sun- 
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ROP.Kkr ^rcI^■TYr■{l•:. Los Angeles. 

Born Selkirk. Scotland. Came to U. S. 1S5S, lo- 
cating in Philadelphia, Pa. At seventeen years of 
age was c!iief bread winner for a family, and took 
a complete course in the "University of Adversity." 
By trade, a layer of brick, and as such helped to 
rebuild Chicago after the 1S71 conflagration. Edu. 
cated public schools and Yanderbilt University. En- 
tered the ministrv of M. E. Church in 111., 1878; 
1888-91 pastor Grace Church, Chicago; 1891-96 Trin- 
ity Denver; 1896-1901 St. James. Chicago. Came 
to T.os Angeles. 1901. Degree of D.D. conferred 
i>v University of Denver. 1893. Married, 1877, Miss 
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RUSSELL JUDSON WATERS, Los Angeles 

Born Vermont, Jnne 6, 1S43; located in Chicago, 
111., 1808; adni. Illinois bar May 12, 1868; prac- 
ticed there until 1886, when he came to Redlands, 
Cal. Known as tiie father of Redlands. Came to 
Los Angeles 1894. Elected to congress 1898. Mem- 
ber Chamber of Commerce, Union League Club; 
Pres. liay Island Club; Pre?. Union League Bldg. 
.\ssn.; Pres. Citizens' Nat'l Bank of Los Angeles 
and the .State Bank of San Jacinto; Dir. and Treas. 
Las Vegas and Tonapah Ry. Co. : Dir. Citizens' Nat. 
Park, Redlands; Pres. Home Savings Bank, Los 
."Xngeles; Pres. Citizens' Security Co.: Pres. Calif. 
Cattle Co.; Pres. Col.;mbia Commer. Co.; press cor- 
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FRANK WIGGINS, Los Angeles 

Born Richmond, Ind., 1849. Tn 1886, because of failing 
healtli, came to California. Became connected witli Los 
Angeles Chamber of Com(ner>.-e 1890. Was Snpt. of Ex- 
hibits until 1897, when given additional office of Secretary, 
positions he still holds. Had charge of Orange Carniv;il 
in Chicago. 1891, of Southern Calif, display at Word'^ 
Fair in Chicago. 1893; at Mid-Winter Fair. 1894; .\tlanta 
1896: Omaha. 1898; Buffalo. 1901: St. Louis, as State 
Commissioner, 1904, and was IVputy Commissioner from 
Calif, to Lewis & Clark Exposition. It is largely due to 
his tireless energy and his special aptitude for this class 
of work that the permanent exhibit of the Chamber has 
been built up to its present excellence. lias served as 
Supt. for four or five citrus and agricultural fairs, and in 
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CIIARJ.es henry frost, Los Angeles 
Born at Ithaca, New York, and at fourteen years 
of age removed to Chicago. Educated public schools. 
Came to I os Angeles, 1886. Organized and is presi- 
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WILSON CAMPBELL PATTERSON, Los Angeles 

Born Ross county, Ohio. Jan. 10, 1845. Educated 
public schools and Salem Academy. July 4, 1863, 
enlisted Co. A, 1st Ohio Heavy Artillery; discharged 
Tulv, 186r,. Came to Los Angeles Jan. 26, 1888. 
Pre's. Los Angeles Nat'l Bank, 1898-1905; elected 
Vice-Pres. First Nat'l Bank upon the consolidatioii. 
of the Los Angeles Nat'l with the First Nat'l, Octo- 
ber, 1905' also a director in many other banks and 
corporations; ex-president Chamber of Commerce; 
president University and mem. California, Sunset 
and other clubs. Republican and Presbyterian. 

Married January 8, 1874, JMiss N'irginia Monette 
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GEORCF. I. COCHRAN, Los Angeles 

Born near Toronto, Can., July 1, 1863. Spent 
early boyhood in Tokio, Japan. Returning about 
TS79 be received his education in Toronto and was 
admitted to the bar at Osgood Hall. Came to I.os 
Angeles in 18SS. Attained success as a lawyer and 
as a financier. Republican in politics. Has aided 
in developing many of the institutions of the city, 
including Univ. of Southern California and Pacific 
Mutual Life Insurance Co.; director of First Na 
tional Rank, Broadvvav Bank and Trust Co., Los 
Angeles Trust Co.. V'. M. C. A., and Y. W. C. 
A., and many ntlier corporations. Active in the 
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HENRY EDVVARnS HUNTINGTON, Los AiVgeles 
Born Oneonta, N. Y., February 27, 1850, son of 
Solon and Harriet (Saunders) Huntington. Edu- 
cated public and private schools. Business life has 
been devoted mainly to the building and operation 
of steam and electric railways. Upon the advice ot 
his uncle, the late Collis P. Huntington, came to 
Calif., 1892, locating in San Francisco, and later 
to Los Angeles; loni-o built Pacific Electric r>ldg. 
Married, Newark, N. J., 187.3, . Mary Prentice. 
Pres. Jonathan and member Calif. Clubs, Los An- 
geles; Pacific Union and Bohemian, San Francisco; 
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WILLIAM J. WASIir.URN, Los Angeles 
Born Livingston Co., N. Y., September 30, 1852. 
Educated public schools. Removed to St. Louis, Mo., 
1872, where he was engaged in business until 1888, 
as a member of the firm of William Washburn & 
Sons. Came to Los Angeles 1888, and since that 
year has been engaged in banking business. Pres. 
Equitable Savings Bank. Pres. Chamber of Com- 
merce. Pres. Board of Education. Member Cali- 
fornia and University Clubs. Married 1878, Miss 
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NILES PEASK, Los Angeles 

Horn ThompsonviDe. Conn., Oct. 13, 1838. grandson 
of Simeon Pease, a Rev. soldier. Educated public 
schools. In tin and .stove business, Thompsonville, 
1860 to fall of 18S4. 1ST(> representative to Conn. 
Legislature. Came to Los .Vngeles October 20, 1884, 
entering furniture and carpet business November 10, 
1884; Inc. Niles Pease Furniture Co.. 1897: sold De- 
cember 1, 1904. Inc. Niles Pease Investment Co. 
I'cbruary S, 1905. I'res. Merchants and Manufac- 
turers' As^n. four years to January l.i, 190G; a Dir. 
Central liank; Dir. Provident Pldg. and Loan Assn.; 
Dir. Angelus Hospital Assn.: Treas. Masonic Temple 
Assn.; Dir. Chamber of Com.: Pres. Niles Pease 
Investment Co. 32d Deg. Mason and Shriner. Mem. 
L'nitarian Church. 



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WILLIAM IL N'KDDKR, Pasadena 

Horn Schenectady, N. Y. Educated public schools. 
Engaged in the lumber business in Schenectady until 
his removal to Pasadena in 188!*. Elected mayor of 
Pasadena, April. 190?,. Now Treas. Pasadena Sav- 
ings and Trust Co., to which office he has been elected 
while mayor. Director of {"irst National Bank, Pasa- 
dena Savings and Trust Company, Home Telephone 
Co. of Pasadena, Prcs. and Director of Pasadena 
Grocery Co., Pres. and Director of the Pasadena 
Masonic Temple Assn. 'I'hirty-second Degree Mason, 
Knight Templar. Shriner. Mem. of the Woodmen of 
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JOHN HYDE BRALY, Los Angeles 

B. Franklin Co., Mo., Jan. '24, 1835. Came to Cal. in 
1849. Grad. from Cumberland ITniv., Tenn., 1859. In ed- 
ucational work in this state 25 yrs. Pres. of Sonoma 
Coll. 2 yrs.; of Union Acad., Contra Costa Co., 3 yrs.; Co. 
Supt. Santa Clara Co. 3 yrs.; V.-P. San Jose Normal 
School 12 yrs.: trustee San Jose Normal 5 yrs.; mem. 
Hds. of Educ. Fresno, San Diego and Los Angeles; trus- 
tee Los Angeles Normal School. Est. large raisin vine- 
yard at Fresno. Org. and was pres. and mngr. First 
Xat'l Bank at Fresno; also Bank of Selma and Bank of 
Tulare until moving sovith. Pres. Southern Cal. Savings 
Bank since 18f3. Pro=. Union Trust Co., which erected 
12-story steel bldg., Fourth and Spring Sts., known as 
Braly Bldg. Married Martha T. TTughes, Alameda Co., 
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I'ALL UE LOXGrUl-:, Hollywood 
Born Lyons, France, April, 1855. Reared and edu- 
cated in Paris. At twelve years began painting flow- 
ers on fans. His first oil painting accepted and hung 
in the Salon of Honor — Paris Salon, 1876. Through 
the failure of the largest bank in Paris he met finan- 
cial ruin and in 1890 came to New York City to 
begin life anew. 180(5 made first flower-painting ex- 
hibition ever made at an art gallery, at American Art 
Galleries, N. Y. City. Came to Los Angeles 1899. 
His residence and extensive floral gardens are at 
Hollywood. Married 1874, Miss Josephine Estieve- 
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JOHN PARKINSON, Los Angeles 

Born Scorton, England, December 12, 1861, son of 
'Thomas Parkinson, of an English family whose line- 
nge is traced back to 1307. His ancestors were ex- 
tensive land owners in the northern part of Lanca- 
shire Co., England, and took leading part in current 
events and contributed some distinguished men to 
England's activities. The family motto is "Volens- 
et-\'alens." Since 1S04 Mr. Parkinson has resided 
in Los .Angeles. Member Calif., Jonathan and Uni- 
versity Clubs of Los Angeles, LTnion League Club of 
San Francisco; also member American Institute of 
.Architects, So. California Chapter of American Insti- 
tute of Architects and a member So. California So- 
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GEORGE EDWIN BERGSTROM, Los Angeles 

Born Neenah, Wis., March 13, 1870. Educated pub- 
lic schools; graduated Phillips-Aiidover Academy, 
Andover, Mass., ISO:!; Sheffield Scientific School of 
Yale, 1890, and Mass. Institute of Technology, 1899. 
1899-1901 in practice of profession New York City. 
Then spent two years in the field. Came to Los 
Angeles 1903. Since 190.5 member firm Parkinson & 
Bergstrom, Architects. Member So. California So- 
ciety Engineers and Architects. Member Jonathan, 
California and L^niversity Clubs of Los Angeles and 
the Yale Club of New York City. Married 1903, 
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ADOLPH H. KOEBIG, Los Angeles 
Born Prussia, Germany, 1853. Graduate Karlsruhe 
University, class ISifi. In the employ of the Ger- 
man Government 1870 to 1S80. Came to America 
1880. Practiced mining and civil engineering in New 
York, Colorado and Wisconsin. Came to California 
1S85 and to I-os Angeles 1889. Consulting Engineer 
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HERMAN W. IIRLLMAN, Los Angeles 

Born Bavaria, Germany, September 25, 1843; edu- 
cated public schools. Came to Los Angeles May 14, 
1S50. In 1871 one of the founders of the firm of 
Hellman, Haas & Co. Sold out 1S!)0. March. 1890, 
to Mav, 1903, \'ice-Pres. and Manager Farmers and 
Merchants' Nat'l Bank. Since July, 1903. Pres. 
Merchants' Nat'l Bank. -Mso Pres., Vice^Pres. or 
Director of twelve additional banks in So. California. 
: 903-4 erected Herman W. Hellman Office Bldg. 
Married 1874. Has four children. Tliirty-second He- 
gree Mason and Mem. Jonathan, California and Con- 
cordia Clubs. From a" $'20 per month position, in 
the employ of Gen. Phineas Banning at Wilmington, 
has become one of the leading bankers of Cali- 
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JOHN PERCIVAL JONES, Santa Monica 

Born at The Hay, Herefordshire, England, 1S29. 
Emigrated to the Ihiited States with parents in in- 
fancy. Educated piihlic schools, Cleveland, O. Came 
to California, 1850. Member California State Senate 
1863-67. Removed to .N^evada 1867. Appointed Svipt. 
famous Crown Point Silver Mines 1868. U. S. Sen- 
ator from Xevada 1873-1003. Chairman Monetary 
Commission 187.') 6. Republican in politics. En- 
gaged in mining since IS.'iO. Designated by the press 
the "Nevada Commoner." One of the well known 
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STEPHEN W. DORSEY, Los Angeles 

Born in Vt., Feb. 28, 1844. Removed to Oberlin, O., 
when a boy; educated at Oberlin Acad. At close of war 
became identified with reorganization and construction of 
Pennsylvania R. R. Later took active part in incorpora- 
tion and construction of Texas i*I; Pacific. Little Rock & 
Fort Smith and Ark. Central R. Rs., to-day the great 
trunk lines of the states they traverse. Served in U. S. 
Senate si.x years. His mining interests began in 187li; 
acquired interests at Central City, Col., and in Leadville's 
discovery, in 1878, and was active in Colo, mining enter- 
prises twentv-five years. For past eight years has been 
one of the most energetic operators in mines of the G. S. 
W. Mr. Dorsey's residence is one of the most beautiful 
in Los Angeles. Member of Cal., Los Angeles Country 
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ADOLPIIUS BUSCH, Pasadena 

Born in Alain?, Germany. As a boy emigrated to St. 
Louis, Mo. Worked on a Miss, river steamer and in mer- 
cantile houses until 1S.")9, when he eml)arked in the com- 
mission, malting and brewers' supply business. In 1S65 
purchased controlling interest in E. Anheuser & Co., then 
a very primitive affair. In 1880, on death of Mr. An- 
heuser. corporate name was changed to Anheuser-Busch 
Brewing Ass'n, and Mr. Busch has since been its Pres. 
He also owns majority of stock in 5 breweries in Texas 
and one in Oklahoma City, and is interested in bank, trust 
company, railroad and ice plant stocks throughout the 
country". His liberal donations to the needy, the charita- 
ble institutions and institutions of learning, are not con- 
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E. D. ROBERTS, San Bernardino 

Born Cambria, Cohinihia county, \\'is., July 18, 1864. 
Educated public schools and Western Univ. of Penn., 
Pittsburg. Began banking business 1883 at Bridge- 
water, S. D. Came to San Bernardino Co. 1886. 
Pres. San Bernardino National Bank (a "Roll of 
Honor Bank"), San Bernardino County Savings 
Bank and First National Bank of Colton; Dir. Ar- 
rowhead Hot Springs Co. and other corporations. 
Delegate Republican Nat. Convention Chicago, 1904. 
Knight Templar and Mem. Al Malikah Temple, Los 
Angeles, and B. P. O. E. Married November 14, 
1891, Maud Adams, a native of Bloomington, 111. 
Has two daughters — Louise and Marie. 



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A. G. WUBRARD, Kedlands 

Horn Northern Wisconsin, 184 7. Acquired knowl- 
edge of chemistry, metallurgy and mining engineer- 
ing. Crossed plains in 186.5, riding on horseback 
from Missouri river to City of Mexico and back 
through Texas, reaching I'ac. Coast in fall of 18C7. 
Took charge of copper mine for an English company 
in 1868. Followed mining in the capacity of Supt, 
of mines and reduction work and doing expert work, 
reporting on prospects in Ariz., Calif., N. Mexico 
and Old Mexico until 189.3. Since then has been 
engaged in banking business. Is now Pres. of Citi- 
zens' Nat'l Fiank of Redlands, Calif., and is inter- 
ested in a chain of banks stretching from San Fran- 
cisco to Phoenix, .\rizona. 



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L. T. GARNSEY, Los Angeles 

Born Great Bend. Pa., 1845. Educated public schools 
and Eastman's Business College. Augvist, 1863, to 
October, 1865, engaged in military Rys. in nearly all 
divisions of \"a., and later connected with building 
of Union Pacific Kv. later in Xorth Platte and 
Omaha, Neb.; Denver, Colo.; Chicago, N. Y. City 
and interior points. l-'or 12 years in wholesale fruit 
and importing business. For li) years in Los Angeles 
as Pres., Mgr. or officer of not less than 5 to 12 
of most successful land corporations in and around 
city of Los Angeles, embracing not less than 150,000 
acres. Pres. Los Angeles & Redondo Ry. Co., Los 
Angeles & Redondo Improvement Co., Redondo Hotel 
Co. Member and one of organizers Cal. Club and 
member Tonatlian Club. 



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J. VV. EDDY, Los Angeles 

Born Java, Wyoming Co., N. Y., 1833. Educated 
public scliools and i\rcade and Genesee Wesleyan 
Seminaries and Genesee College. Taught school. 
Removed to Chicago 1853, studied law and admitted 
to the bar 1856. Practiced at Batavia, 111. Member 
Board of Education. County Supervisors, Legislature 
and State Senate. Came to Los Angeles ISya. 
Built Angel's Flight R. R., 1901: Vice-Pres. Cali- 
fornia Children's Home, President Los Angeles Or- 
thopedic Hospital. Member First Congregational 
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JOHN R. MATHEWS, Los Angeles 

Born St. Lonis, Mo. Educated public schools and Wash- 
ington Univ.; grad. ]\Io. State Dental Coll. Engaged in 
mining and real estate in Leadville, Colo., three years. 
In 1883 estalilished Mathews Bros, produce house at Los 
Angeles. Was Pres. Old Produce Exchange three terms 
and an incorporator Los Angeles Board of Trade. Was 
Director Chamber of Commerce. Served as Brig.-Gen. 
N. G. C. four years. 1S9:3 elected General Assembly, and 
1894 to State Senate. Appointed P. M. Los Angeles by 
Pres. Cleveland. Again in produce business and two 
years was Pres. of present Produce Exchange. February 
1, 1006, disposed of interest in Mathews Bros, and elected 
Pres. State Bank and Trust Co. 'Married Miss Bessie 
F. Hersey, daughter of Geo. E. Hersey, banker of Gilroy, 
Calif. 



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JOSEPH SCOTT, Los Angeles 
Born Penrith, Cumberland Co., England, July 16, 
1867. Educated Ushaw Coll., Durham, and matric- 
ulated in honors London University, England, 1887. 
Prof. Rhetoric and English Literature Allegany Coll., 
N. Y., 1890-93. Came to Los Angeles 1893. Ad- 
mitted Calif, bar 1894; in practice since. Elected 
Mem. Board of Education 1904. Dir. Equitable 
Savings Bank and Mem. Chamber of Commerce. 
Mem. Calif. Club and President and one of the 
founders of Newman Club. Married Miss Bertha 
Rotli. a native daughter of California. 



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SAMUEL WATERS ALLERTON, Pasadena 

Born Armenia. Diitchess Co., N. Y., May 26, 1S29. 
Located in Cliicas^o IS.tO and since that time his 
business Hie has been largely devoted to the live 
stock and packing interests. One of the founders 
of the Union Stock Yards of Chicago in 1806. For 
many years has been a director of the Chicago City 
Railway. His business career has been one of con- 
tinual activity and unquestioned integrity. Married 
1860 to Miss' Pamilla Thompson of Canton, 111. Po- 
litically always an uncompromising Republican. For 
many years his winter residence has been in beau- 
tiful Pasadena. 



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ELI P. CLARK, Los Angeles 

Born on farm near Iowa City. Moved to Grinnell, 
la., 1855. Educated public schools and Iowa Coll. Be- 
gan teaching at age of 18, and continued in S. \\'. 
Missouri three seasons. Left home for Ariz. 1S75, was 
in mercantile business, and for 10 years .\uditor of the 
Territory; also engaged in inanuf. and sale of lumber. 
January, 1891, came to Los Angeles. Was X'ice-Pres. 
and Mgr. Los -Xngeles Consol. Elec. R. R., the present 
Los .Vngeles Ky. system, which was first electric road 
in successful operation in Calif. 1804 began construc- 
tion of first line to Pasadena. 1S96 built first Santa 
Monica line, now known as Los Angeles Pacific Co.. 
with nearly 300 miles of track. Has been Pres. and 
Gen. Mgr. since organization. Mem. Jonathan, L'niver- 
sity and Calif. Clubs. Pres. Congl. I'nion and Hoard of 
Trustees First Congl. Church. 



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WILLIAM G. NF.VIX (Dec'd), Los Angeles 
Born Philadelphia, Pa., December 17, 1855. Edu 
cated in the public sclionls of Boston, Mass. From 
1876 until his death, January 36, 1902, was engaged 
in the railway business, except the time 1886 to 
1S!)1. From 1897 to 1903 was Gen. Mgr. of the 
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Ry. Was extensively 
interested in I.os Angeles real estate. Was a mem- 
ber of the Calif, and Los Angeles Country Clubs, 
and Pacific Union Club of San Francisco. 



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J. ROSS CLARK, Los Angeles 

Born near Connellsville, Pa., April 10, 1850. Edu- 
cated public schools and Bentonsport (la.) Academy. 
Moved to Montana 1S71, where he engaged in bank- 
ing, mining and merchandising until 1892, when he 
came to Los Angeles. Since 1892 engaged in rail- 
roading and the mnfr. of sugar. 1901 elected Vice- 
Pres. San Pedro, Los Angeles &• Salt Lake R. R. ; 
has taken an active part in its construction and oper- 
ation. Vice-Pres. Citizens' Nat'l P.ank. Married 
1878, Miriam A. Evans at Rutte, Montana. Has a 
daughter and a son. Mem. Calif, and Jonathan 
Clubs. 



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JOHN H. NORTON, Los Angeles 

Born Milton, Mass., 1S47. At age of seventeen came 
west to Colorado, then to Arizona, where he estab- 
lished in business, connecting himself with the U. S. 
Government in all its diiTerent brandies, handling 
a large volume of business for several years. In 
1896 moved to Los Angeles, and was soon again in 
business, connecting himself with several enterprises. 
He is President of the John H. Norton Co., Presi- 
dent P.Iue Water Sr Irrigating Co. of New Mexico, 
President of Norton-Morgan Commercial Co. of 
Southern Arizona. Director of First National Bank, 
Citizens' National Bank, Los Angeles Trust Co. 
Member California Club, Jonathan Club. Delegate 
National Republican Convention 1904. 



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MILO MILTON POTTER, Los Angeles 
Born Dundee, Micb., May 19, 1854. Graduated Uni- 
versity of Michigan, 1873. Started in life with the 
idea of becoming a banker, but circumstances changed 
his plans, and since 1884 has been engaged in hotel 
business. Came to Los Angeles 1884. and for nine 
years managed the Westminster. He planned, built 
and owns the Hotel Van Nuys, and in 1901 erected 
Hotel Potter at Santa Barbara, which he owns. 
Member California, .Tonathan, University and Los 
Angeles Country Clubs. Married October 19, 1901, 
Mrs. Nellie M. Jones of San Francisco. 



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STODDARD JF.SS, los A.noeles 

liorn Fox Lake, \\'is., lS:i6. Educated University of 
Wisconsin. Cashier of tl'e Bank at Waupun, Wis., 
from 1876 to 1885. During residence in Wisconsin 
served several years in City Council and in 1883 
elected Mayor of Waupun. 1885 moved to Pomona, 
California, and in 1SS6, with others, organized the 
I'irst National Bank of I'omona and was its Cashier 
until January 1, ISOS. April, 1001, accepted position 
as \"ice-rres. First National Bank of Los .\ngeles. 
Was first City Treasurer of Pomona, first President 
of the Board of Trade, for many years Trustee of 
the Pomona Public Library and fur several years 
President :>( the Board. 



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MOSES II. SriF.RM.W, Los .\ngeles 
Born West Rupert, \'t., 1S54. Acquired liberal edu- 
cation and in early '~0s moved to Prescott, Ariz., 
where he engaged in educational work and later 
served as Supt. of Public Instruction of the Terri- 
tory, and for three terms was Adjutant General of 
Ariz. He organized and was the first Pres. of the 
Phoeni.x X'alley Bank. Gen. Sherman came to Los 
Angeles in 1889 and here he has been extensively 
engaged in the constr\iction and oporation of electric 
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EDWARD W. DAVIF.S, Los Angeles 
Born Winterset, Iowa, Feb. 8, 1861. For 29 years 
was engaged in the lumber business. Came to Los 
Angeles 1892. Estab. the Patten & Davies Lumber 
Co. Pres. Klamath Redwood Co. and Vice-Pres. 
Empire Redwood Co., San Francisco. Director Cen- 
tral Bank since its organization. Pres. Auditorium 
Co. Prom, in Masonic bodies in Southern California. 
Married 1884, Miss Delia Paramore of Topeka, Kan. 
Rep. in politics. Now practically retired from busi- 
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DUMMER KIAII TRASK, [xis Angeles 
Born Cincinnati, O., July 17, 18G0. He is a de- 
scendant of Capt. William Traske, one of the five 
"Old Planters" of Salem, Mass. Judge Trask lived 
in Maine from 1861 until he came to California in 
1882, locating in San Joaquin County, where he fol- 
lowed the profession of teaching. He removed to 
Los Angeles in 1890, where he practiced law until 
he was appointed a judge of the Superior Court in 
1898. Has filled several public positions, and is a 
Past Grand Chancellor in the Order of Knights of 
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EDWARD SIGOURNEY COBB, Los Angeles 

Born Nashville. Tenii., May 21, 1858, son of Jon- 
athan and Martha S. (Wales) Cohb, Dedham, Mass. 
Educated high school; in 1870 grad. Worcester Poly. 
Institute. 1883-88 Prof. Practical Mechanics and 
Machine Design, Rose Poly. Institute, Terre Haute, 
Tnd. 1888 to date consulting eng'r Dallas, Te.x., 
Erie, Pa., San Francisco and Los Angeles. Since 
1893 connected with much of the largest industrial 
construction in California. Designed and built, 1903- 
3-4, Pacific Electric Bldg.. Los Angeles. Mem. Jon- 
athan Club, Hillside Club of Whittier, and Engi- 
neers and .\rchitects' .Assn. of Los .\ngeles. 



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OSCAR LAWLER, Los Angeles 
Born Marshalltown, Ta., April 2, 1875, son of Will- 
iam T. and Margaret Lawler. Educated public 
schools. Came to Los Angeles 1888. Read law 
under the direction of Judge Erskine M. Ross and 
U. S. .Senator F. V. Flint. Admitted to the bar 
1896, and lias practiced since. Delegate Republican 
National Convention 1904. December, 190.5, ap- 
pointed U. S. Attorney So. Dis. of Cal. Mem. Los 
.\ngeles Commandery Xo. 9. K. T., and Jonathan 
and Concordia Clubs 



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ROBERT ARNOLD ROWAM, Pasadena 
Born Chicago, 111, August 20, 1876, son George D. 
and Fannie F. Rowan. Father was wholesale grocer 
and real estate operator; died September 7, 1902. 
R. A. Rowan came to Los Angeles with parents in 
1876. F.ducated public schools. 1893-4 engaged in 
export business N. Y. City. 1895-7 merchandise 
broker. Since 1897 engaged in real estate business. 
Pres. R. A. Rowan & Co. Member Los Angeles 
Realty Board. Member California, Jonathan, Los 
Angeles Country, Pasadena Country Clubs and Pres. 
Los Angeles Athletic Club. 



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ERNEST II. MAY, Pasadena 
Born \\'ashington, D. C. October 16, 1859. Edu- 
cated public schools and Gonzaga College, Washing- 
ton. 1880 to 1885 employed in U. S. Treasury at 
Washington. Came to Pasadena 1886, and since con- 
nected with the First National Bank; Vice-Pres. 
190.3-4; elected Pres. 1905. Pres. Pasadena Savings 
and Trust Co. Member Executive Council State 
Bankers' Association. 



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CHARLES F. WIIITTLESKY. I.os Angeles 
r.orn Alton, III., Marcli 10, 1S67. Educated public 
schools. At sixteen years of age began the study 
of architecture. Practiced in Chicago, 111., 1888-1903, 
when he came to I.os Angeles. Architect for tlie 
Auditorinin, Dr. Hayward's Hotel, Gth and Spring 
streets. Member So. Cal. Chapter of tlie .Xnuiican 
Institute of Architects and H. P. O. E. and Masonic 
fraternities. 



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B. O. KENDALL, Pasadena 
Born Clinton, Mass., September 2, 1861. Educated 
public schools at Clinton. Came to Pasadena Janu- 
ary, 1886, and since August of that year has been 
engaged in btisiness as a real estate, stocks and 
bonds and investment broker. Pres. B. O. Kendall 
& Co., which company was incorporated March 1, 
1905. Pres. and Treas. Boston Investment Co. 
Member Overland and Pasadena Whist Clubs. 



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LEONARD MERRILL, Los Angeles 
Born Lewis Co., Mo., September .3, 1S57. Educated 
Baptist College, Louisiana, Mo. From 1S78 to 1S90 
engaged in the cattle brokerage business in St. Louis, 
Mo. Came to Los Angeles 1S91, and has since been 
engaged in the brokerage business of real estate, 
stocks and bonds. June, 190.5, elected Pres. Los 
.■\ngelcs Realty Board; re-elected Pres. Los Angeles 
Realty Board June. 1906. Member Stock Exchange 
and Chamber of Commerce, Los Angeles. Married 
December 31, 1884, Miss Susan L. La Beaume, of 
St. Louis, Mo. Member L'nion League Club and 
Temple Baptist Church. 



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OSCAR EUGENE FARISII, Los Angeles 
Born Chatham Co., \. C, July 20, 1868. Self edu- 
cated. From 1880 to 1S!>3 with the Southern Ex- 
press Co. in \'irginia and Tennessee. Came to Los 
Angeles ISO.i. Cashier Los Angeles Gas and Elec- 
tric Company 1895-1898. Since 1898 in the oil and 
real estate business. Member realty firm of Mines 
& Parish since September, 1902. Member Realty 
Board and Chamber of Commerce. 1903-4 member 
City Council. JIarried December, 1895, Miss Alice 
Grindrod of Albany, N. Y. 



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HENRY NEWBY, Pasadena 

Born Spiceland, Ind., May 4, 1868. Educated Spice- 
land Acad'^my. Camo to Pasadena February, 1887. 
September 1, 1887, to October 1, 1900, his business 
connection was with the First Nat'l Bank, Pasadena. 
October 1, 1900, became Cashier; December fi, 1904, 
\'ice-Pres.. and .'\pril 13, 1005, upon death of Gil- 
bert W. Pratt, Pn-s. of Pasadena Xat'l Bank. Is 
also VicePres. of the Bankers' Savings Bank, Pasa- 
dena, and Director American Nat'l Bank, Monrovia. 
Married September 11, 18S9, Miss Pearl Berry, 
Spiceland. Tnd. K. T. and Thirty-second Degree 
Mason; member Jonathan Club, Los Angeles, and 
Overland Club, Pasadena. 



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S. p. MIJLFORD, Los Angeles 

liorn Cincinnati, O., August 06, 1850, son of David and 
Sarali Ann ( X'ail) Mulford. Graduate of Ohio Wes- 
leyan University, Delaware, 1876. Admitted to Ohio 
bar, 1878; came to T,os Angeles 1S83, has been en- 
gaged in practice there since 1886. Married August 
30, 1885, Helen P.. Farrar, Cambridge. Ohio, daughter 
of Capt. W'm. ;\I. Farrar, dec. Stockholder First Nat'l 
and Commercial Nat'l Banks of Los .\ngeles. First Pres, 
of Ohio Society of So. ("al. Member First M. F. Church 
of Los Angeles. Fleeted Pres. M. F. Social Union, 1905. 
Member Los Xngeles Commandery No. 0, K. T. Father, 
David Mulford, died at his home, February 9, 1906, at 
the advanced age of !).S years. Has always taken active 
part in all matters pertaining to the best interests of the 
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liOMKR LaTGHLIX, Los Angeles 

Born Little Beaver, O., March 23, 1S43. July 13, 
1862, enl. Co. A, 115th O. V. I., and disch. July 
12, 1865. 1871-73 importer and wholesale dealer 
English china. N. Y. City. 1873 founded Homer 
Laughlin China Co., E. Liverpool, O. 1898 erected 
Homer Laughlin Bldg., first fire-proof office building 
in So. Cal. 1905 completed Laughlin Annex, first 
reinforced concrete fire-proof bldg. in Los Angeles. 
Mem. Gen. Lyon Post, G. A. R., E. Liverpool, O.; 
member Crusaders K. T. delegation visiting Europe 
in 1S71. Thirty years intimate friend of \\'m. Mc- 
Kinley. Mem. Cal. Club, Los .\ngeles. Res. of this 
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WILLIAM G. BRADSHAW, Los Angeles 

Born Somerville, Mass., January 16, 1861; came to 
Los Angeles in 1882 and since 1886 has been en- 
gaged in real estate business, and identified with the 
growth and development of the city, being a mem- 
ber of the Realty Board. Chamber of Commerce and 
Union League Club. Promoter and largest owner 
of Wilshire Blvd. Ilgts., a high-grade subdivision 
situated in the western portion of the city, cor. 
Wilshire bUd, and Vermont ave. Has always made 
a specialty of first-class residence and business prop- 
erty; also extensively interested in oil and mining 
properties. By years of square dealing has created 
a reputation for honesty and reliability not excelled 
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ROBERT MARSH, Los Angeles 
r>(irn Cliarlestown, Til.. January 20, 1874. Educated 
public schools. Came to Los Angeles 1890. For 
some time was engaged as a dealer in hats and fur- 
nishing goods. Since 1901 engaged in the real estate 
business, under firm name of Robert Marsh & Co., 
general aiid business property. Mem. Realty Board. 
Office ground floor, main corridor, IL W. Ilellman 
nidg. Ts thirty-second Degree Mason and Knight 
Templar; Mem. California, Jonathan and Los An- 
geles Country Clubs. Married 1S9T, Miss Ceceil 
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NORMAX BRIDGE, A. M., M. D., Los Angeles 

AND Pasadena 
Born Windsor, \'t., December 30, 1844. Educated 111. 
public scbools and Svcamore (111.) High School. Grad. 
Chicago Med. Coll.,'l8(i8, and Rush Med. Coll., 1878. 
A. M. Lake Forest Univ., 1S89. Teacher in various 
chairs since 1873; now Emeritus Prof. Med., Rush 
Med. Coll. (Univ. of Chicago): mem. 1881-4 and 
twice Pres. Chicago Board of Education. Repub- 
lican Mem. Board Election Commrs., Chicago, 188(i- 
90. Mem. Assn. American Physicians, .\nierican Cli- 
matological Assn. Well known author and writer 
on medical subjects. Married 1874 Mae Manford. 
Member California Club and University Club, and 
Union League Club and Hamilton Club, Chicago. 



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WILLIAM MEAD, Los Angeles 

Born in Lewistown, 111., January 11, 1863. Reared 
on farm and attended Lewistown public schools. 
Moved to Los Angeles ISSG and engaged in real es- 
tate business untillSOO. Was elected on Democratic 
ticket to California Legislature 189G and 1898, and 
twice received complimentary vote of minority for 
speaker. \\'as organizer of Central Bank of Los 
Angeles and its President since it commenced busi- 
ness in April, IPOO. lOO.") organized Goethenburg 
Committee, of twenty-live leading business and pro- 
fessional men of city, for purpose of introducing the 
company system of regulating the liquor traffic in 
Los Angeles. Married 1S96, Nella Mae Wilde of 
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JAMES A. FOSflAY, Los Angeles 
Born Cold Spring, N. Y., November 25, 1856. Grad- 
uated State Kormal School, Albany, N. Y., 1879. (A.M., 
Univ. of Southern California; Pd.'D., State Normal Coll.,' 
Albany, N. Y.) Taught public schools Putnam Co., 
N. v., 1879-T881: School Commissioner 1881-7. Secre- 
tary N. Y. Association School Commissioners and Supt. 
1884-6. Removed to California 1887. Member School 
Examining Board, Los Angeles Co., 1889-95. Dep Supt 
Schools, Los .'\ngeles, 1893-95. Supt. July, 1895, to 
March 1, 1906. Janaary, 1906, elected "Supreme Pres. 
Fraternal Brotherhood. Member Nat'l Council of Edu- 
cation and California Council of Education. Director 
So. California .^cademy Sciences. Grand Master Califor- 
nia Grand Lodge, F. & A. M., 1900-1. Married March 
18, 1885, Miss Phebe Powell Miller. Member Sunset 
Club. 



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GEORGE KISLINGr.URY, Los Angeles 

Born England 1S4S. Came to U. S. and located in 
Wisconsin 1855. Educated Wis. public schools. Pri- 
vate soldier Co. K, 37th Wis. Vol. Inf. Engaged in 
mining first in l.S(i.5, Wis. lead and zinc mines. 
Removed to Col. 1808, and to White Pine. Nev., 
1869. Engaged in mining and as mine engineer 
since that time. Examined mining properties 

throughout the U. S. and Territories, Alaska, i?ritish 
Columbia, Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala. For 
two years Mining Inspector of Colorado. Eight 
years mine examiner for Capt. J. R. De Lamar. 
Resident of Los Angeles since 1900. Member Jon- 
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JAMES V. BALDWIN, Los Angeles 
Born at Weston, O., October 25, ISTO. Educated 
public schools and Ohio Wesleyan University, Dela- 
ware. From 1891 to 1S97 engaged in mercantile 
business at Weston, O. Came to Los Angeles 1S97, 
since which time has been engaged in the real estate 
business. Wilshire Blvd. and West Adams Heights 
are some of his most successful ventures. Mem. of 
the Realty Board: Jonathan and Los Angeles Coun- 
try Clubs. Married 1891. Miss Maude L. Munn of 
^^■est()n, O. 



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ROHERT NELSON BULLA, Los Angeles 

Born Richmond, Ind., September 8, 1852. Educated 
public schools and National University, Lebanon, O. 
Admitted Ohio Bar 1ST6, practiced in Cincinnati 
three years, came to Los Angeles 1883, where he 
has practiced since. Organized Central Oil Com- 
pany of Los Angeles, 1895, of which he is Attorney 
and Secretary. In 1893 was elected to the Assembly 
and re-elected in 1895, and in 1897 elected to Cali- 
fornia Senate. 1897 was member of Commission to 
Revise the Codes of California. jNIember Board of 
Directors of the Central and the Dollar Savings 
Bank and Trust Co. Married August 4, 1890, Miss 
Evangeline Sutton, who died March 12, 1903. Mem- 
ber of California, Sunset, University, Union League 
and Country Clubs of Los Angeles. 



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WILLIAM M. GAKr.AXI), Los Angeles 
Born Westport, Maine, March 31, 1866. Educated 
W'aterville High School. 1890 Receiving Teller Illi- 
nois Trust & Savings Bank. Came to Los Angeles 
1891, and until 1891 Auditor Pacific Cable Ry. Co. 
Since 1891 engaged in real estate business, office 
Huntington Bldg. Delegate Nat'l Republican Con- 
vention, Philadelphia, 1900, and California's member 
Xotification Com. 1900. Pres. Automobile Club of 
So. Cal., and member California, Jonathan, Los An- 
geles Country and Pasadena Country Clubs. 



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\V. W. NEUF.R, r.os Angeles 

Born in Hamburg, Pa., 1838; moved to Wilkes-Barre, 
Pa., at fourteen. Commenced to learn trade of car- 
penter and joiner, during which time also studied archi- 
tecture. Then engaged in building and real estate busi- 
ness, and in practice of his profession. His architectural 
skill was evidenced in erecting many of the most impos- 
ing buildings in Wilkes-Barre, where he resided for 
thirty-five years, being member of City Council ten 
years. Became interested in Bradford oil fields in 1878. 
Moved to Cal. in ISOl. pioneer in Whittier oil field in 
1890. and organized Central Oil Co. In 1900 Central Oil 
Co. was sold to Central Oil Co. of Los Angeles, of 
which he is now Pres. Is also largely interested in Los 
Angeles city real estate, and in number of its banking 
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WALTER LINDLF.Y, Los Angeles. 

Born Monrovia, Indiana, January 13, 185S. Edu- 
cated Minneapolis High School. Graduated I-ong 
Island College Hospital 1875. Practiced in Los An- 
geles since 1875. Incumbent various political, civil 
and professional positions. Founded "Southern Cal- 
ifornia Practitioner" 1881. Still editor and pub- 
lisher Organized 1885 and is now Dean College 
Medicine, University Southern California. President 
Board Trustees VYhittier State School. Vice-Presi- 
dent National Conference Charities and Corrections, 
Director I'armers' and Merchants' National Bank. 
Member California Club. Member Los Angeles 
Union League. President University Club. Author 
■'California of the South" — .\ppIeton, and numerous 
professional and sociological articles. 



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AI.ONZO B. CASS, I.os Angeles 
Born near Albion, X. Y., July 4, 1856. Educated 
public schools and Albion Academy. From 1881 to 
1887 was a licensed trader to the Choctaw and Creek 
Nations at Muskogee, Ind. Ter. Came to Los An- 
geles 1888, in the hardware business since. Mem. 
Cass Smurr-Damerel Co. 1898 organized Home Tel. 
Co., of which he is Pres. ; Mem. Chamber of Com- 
merce eight years and Pres. 1901. Vice-Pres. Cen- 
tral Bank, Vice-Pres. Y. M. C. A., Mem. Los An- 
geles Commandery No. 9. K. T., and Sunset, Cali- 
fornia, Jor.p.than and Union League Clubs. 



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JACOB M. SCHNEIDER, Los Angeles 

Born Ilessen, Germany, August 11, 1S69. Educated 
in Germany until twelve years old. and then in the 
San Francisco public schools until fourteen years old. 
Since 18S3 has been engaged in the dry goods busi- 
ness. Came to I.os .\ngeles ISOO and has since been 
Pres. and Manager of the J. \V. Robinson Co. Jan- 
uary IS, 1906, elected Pres. Merchants and Manu- 
facturers' Assn.: director of same since 1896. Dir. 
Municipal League 100.')-6. Member Los Angeles 
Chamber of Commerce. Member California and Jon- 
athan Clubs. ]n politics Republican. Married Jan- 
uary 17, 1898, Miss Angela Baric. 



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HARRY VORIIEES DAVIS, Los Angeles 

Born near McCor.nellsville, O., October 14, 1867. 
Kducated public and commercial schools. In business 
life was for two years telegraph operator for Wa- 
bash and other railroads in Illinois. Then five years 
in railroad business at Jacksonville, 111. Came to Los 
Angeles 1896, and until July, 1904, was auditor and 
cashier Los Angeles Traction Co.. and until De- 
cember, 100.5, held same position with Crescent Wharf 
and Warehouse Co. January 5, 1906, elected Su- 
preme Sec. of the Fraternal Brotherhood, the largest 
fraternal insurance order west of the Rocky Movin- 
tains. Morried 1887, Miss Elizabeth Askew of Jack- 
sonville, 111. 



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WILBUR STUART TUl'PEK, Los Angeles 

Born Evansville, Wis., April 11, 18G4. Educated 
public schools; graduated ITniversity of Wisconsin 
1S86, with Degrees A. B., R. I.., LL. B., A. M. 
Instructor I'niversity of Wisconsin two years. One 
of the organizers of Conservative Life, Los Angeles, 
1900; President of Company. 1905. President Pa- 
cific Mutual Life, 1906. .^uthor of "Xet Rates and 
Reserves Adapted to Preliminary Term Valuation," 
and various papers and articles on life insurance sub- 
jects. Appointed Lieut. -Colonel and A. 1). C, Staff, 
Commander-in-Chief, by Gov. Pardee 190.5. Member 
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MATTIIF.W Sr.ANIN, Pasadena 
Born Saratoga Co., N. Y., January 6, 1S53. Edu- 
cated public schools. Located Indianapolis, Ind., 
1879, and 1887 removed to Pasadena. For many 
years was acknowledged most prominent contractor 
and builder in Southern California. Pres. Pasadena 
City Council 1903-4. Resigned as member of Coun- 
cil April, 1905, after five years of most faithful serv- 
ice. Thirty-second Degree Mason and K. T. Mason. 
Member Pasadena Board of Trade. Married 1887, 
Miss Martha J. Foster of Indianapolis. 



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FRANK M. DOUGLASS, Hollywood 

Born Knox Co., Mo., July 37, 1859. Educated Kirks- 
ville (Mo.) Normal School. 1877 to 1887 engaged 
in lumber business at Kirksville. Came to Los An- 
geles 1887. Engaged in loaning money for some 
years. 1893 organized, and Sec. and Mgr. until 1898, 
Duarte-Monrovia Fruit Exchange. 1898 organized 
First Nat'l Bank of Covina, and 1899 the Covina 
Valley Savings Bank. Selling out returned to Los 
.\ngeles. 1904 organized Mercantile Trust & Sav- 
ings Bank; sold December, 1905. March, 1906, or- 
ganized Nat'l Bank of Commerce, of wliich he is 
Pres.; also Pres. Manhattan Savings Bank. Mem- 
ber California Club and a Knight Templar. Married 
1882, Miss Phoebe Montgomery of Kirksville, Mo. 
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THOMAS EDWARD GUJBOX, Los Angeles 

Born Prairie Co., Arkansas. May 28, 1S60. Edu- 
cated chiefly at home, but later studied law in Little 
Rock, Ark', and was admitted to Arkansas Bar. 
18S3-5 practiced law in Little Rock. 1885-6 member 
Arkansas General .'\ssembly. Removed to Los An- 
geles 1888, practiced here since. Was first Vice- 
President Los Angeles Terminal R. R. Co., 1891- 
1900. Organized San Pedro-Los Angeles and Salt 
T,ake R. R. Co. 1900, and has since been Third Vice- 
President and General Counsel. Is also a director 
and officer in several banks and industrial corpora- 
tions. Married December 9, 1891, Miss Ellen Rose 
of Little Rock. 



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COL. G. G. GREEX, Pasadena 

Born Woodbury, N. J. Educated Ft. Edwards (N. 
Y.) Institute. Pennington (N. J.) Seminary, Dicken- 
son (Pa.) Coll. and grad. University of Pennsylvania 
Med. School. ]S65 Asst. Surgeon Civil War. Since 
1S65 identified with commercial, manufacturing and 
political interests of the Eastern seaboard. 1887 in 
his own private car m.ade trip through California and 
annual trips since. 1889 built his residence at Alta- 
dena, which town was named for Col. Green's daugh- 
ter, born ISSO. Built the Hotel Green, the same 
being the largest absolutely fire-proof hotel in So. 
Calif, and owned entirely by him. Has had con- 
ferred on him numerous honorarj' political positions 
and is distinctly a man of extensive affairs. Mem. 
Calif, and Pasadena Country Clubs. 



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CHARLES R. DRAKE, Los Angeles 

Born Clark Co., 111., 1S4.^.. During Civil War was 
Acting Master's Mate under Admiral Porter. In 
1871 went to Tucson, .'\riz., where he was Asst. Post- 
master, and from January. 1881, to 1885 was Re- 
corder of Pima Co. During his thirty years' resi- 
dence in Arizona took an active part in its political, 
financial and general affairs. 19()0 was delegate to 
the Republican Nat. Convention at Philadelphia. 
Came to Los Angeles in fall of lltOO. Organized and 
is President of the Seaside Water Co., San Pedro 
Water Co., and Long Beach Bath House Co. Mem- 
ber of I. O. O. F., K. of P. and B. P. O. E. 
Member of Chamber of ("ommerce, California and 
Los Angeles Countrv Clubs. 



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WILLIAM A. WHITE, Los Angeles 
Born Illinois April 9, 1860. Educated Soldiers' Or- 
phan's Home, Xenia, O., and then learned the stone 
cutter's trade. Came west 1870, residing in Kansas 
and Colorado until 1889, when he came to Los An- 
geles. 1893-4 Mgr. City and County Free Labor Bu- 
reau, then four years Dept. Sheriff under John Burr. 
After serving two terms as Tax and License Col- 
lector was, in 1902, elected sheriff of Los Angeles 
Co. Mem. Union League Clubs of San Francisco and 
Los Angeles, the Occidental Club, Mason, B. P. O. E., 
K. O. T. M., Foresters and Fraternal Brotherhood. 
Republican in politics. His father was Capt. Co. A, 
16th 111. Vol. Inf., and was killed at battle of Black 
River, 186.''). 



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GAIL BORDEN, Alhambra 

Born Brewster, Putnam Co., N. Y., May 13, 1872. 
Educated public schools and Piatt Institute, Brook- 
lyn. Son of John G. P>orden, born at Galveston, 
Texas, and died at 49 years of age, Wallkill, N. Y.; 
grandson of Gail Borden, of condensed milk fame. 
From 189:.' to 189.3 Mr. Borden had charge of his 
father's estate in New York state. Came to Califor- 
nia 1895, since 1S97 engaged in mining. Married 
189.3, Miss Helen M. Valk, Brooklyn, N. Y. Mr. 
Borden is a Republican and member of the Presby- 
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JOSEPH MESIMER, Los Angeles 

Born Tippecanoe City, O., Nov. 3, 1855. Came to 
Los Angeles fall 1859. Educated in public schools 
and then engaged in commercial pursuits. 1878 
founded the Queen shoe store at 158-60 N. Main 
street; twenty-eight consecutive years in shoe busi- 
ness. Reliable business methods have gained him suc- 
cess. President St. Louis Fire Brick and Clay Co.; 
member Calif, and Jonathan chibs and B. P. O. E., 
K. of C, C. K. 'of A., L. A. C. B. A., and 
Y. M. L In ])olitics a Democrat. Married, 1879, 
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JOSEPH H. CLARK, Santa Monica 

Born in Corning, N. Y. Early resident of Minne- 
apolis, Minn.; closely connected with several of the 
banks, also of the great milling corporations of that 
city. One of the organizers of the Minneapolis 
Chamber of Commerce. Retired in 1892. Resided 
in Santa Monica, California, since 1S94. Director 
in the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Co., Los An- 
geles. In the biography of Mr. Clark we have a 
clear demonstration, of the fact that neither capital 
nor long years of preliminary training are necessary 
to assure success in life. 



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A. F. POMliROY, Los Angeles 

One of the best known real estate men of Los An- 
geles, has resided here over twenty years, coming to 
Los Angeles from San Jose, Cal., where he was 
formerly county rlerk of Santa Clara county, also 
cashier of San Jose Savings Bank. lias been presi- 
dent Board of Education of Los .\ngeles; eight 
years a member Board of Trustees of State Normal 
school in Los Angeles. Since 1803 a director and 
vice-president State Mutual Building and Loan As- 
sociation; member realty board. His record in busi- 
ness and citizenship entitles him to the fullest meas- 
ure of respect and confidence. 



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CHARLES W. SMITH, Pasadena 

B. Austerlitz, N. Y., Sept. 5, 1831. Began railroad busi- 
ness 1855, and until 1S70 with the Penn, system west of 
Pittsburg; 1870 gen. fr. agt. Central Ry. ; 1872 gen. 
mngr. Indiananolis. Bloomington & Western Rv. ; 1875- 

1880, traffic mngr. C. B. & O. Ry. ; May, 1880,' to May, 

1881, traffic mngr. N. Y., L. E. & Western Rv.; 1881- 
1886, gen. mngr. C. S: O. Rv. ; 1886 to Tune 1, 1890, 
first V. P. and gen. mngr. A. T. & S. F. R'y. ; from 1890 
to 1895 retired on account of ill health: February, 1806, 
to July 1, 1897. receiver Atlantic & Pacific R. R. Co.; 
1897 to Jan. 1, IOC?, nres. Los. .Angeles & Pasadena Elec. 
Ry. Co. Since 1903 retired from active railway busi- 
ness. V. P. Union Savings Bank of Pasadena; mem. 
California Club. Married May 13, 1852, Miss Marciline 
Sprague of Woodstock, O. 



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MF.RIIDITU P. SNYDER, Los Angeles 

Born on a plantation near Winston-Salem, N. C, 
Oct. 22, 1859. Educated puhlic schools and Yadkin 
College. Came to Los Anateles June, 1880; from 
1884 to 1893 >-ngaged in real estate business; 1893 
to 1896 in boot and shoe business; 1896 to 1902, 
insurance and real estate; 1903 organized the Cali- 
fornia Savings Bank, of which he has since been 
president. In politics a Democrat. Police Com- 
missioner 1891-2-3; 1S94 councilman from Second 
ward. Mayor of Los Angeles three terms, elected 
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GEORGE E. BITTINGKR, Los Angeles 

Born Chicaso, 111., April 28, 1868. Educated public 
schools of Chicago and Jacksonville (111.) Business 
Coll. Came to So. California from Denver 1886, 
locating at Riverside. Came to Los .\ngcles 1903. 
Engaged in banking since 1886, first at Riverside and 
then here, as cashier of Los .\ngeles Nat'l Rank until 
consolidation with First Xat'l Bank fall of ll»0.j. 
when he was elected director and vice-president of 
that bank, also vice-president Equitable Savings 
Bank; director in various corporations; member 
California, Jonathan and Union League clubs, Knight 
Templar and Scottish Rite Mason. Married, 1892, 
Miss Laura Frankenheimer. 



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WII.I.IAM HAYES PERKY, Los Angeles 
Born near Newark, O.. Oct. 7, 1832. Obtained pub- 
He school education. By trade cabinet-maker. Came 
to Los Angeles Feb.. 1854, and for half a century 
took leading and active part in manufacturing, finan- 
cial and commercial affairs of Los Angeles and Cal. 
Built and was Pres. of the first gas company in Los 
Angeles. President thirty years of the Los Angeles 
Water Cos. 1858 married Miss Elizabeth M. Dalton. 
Mr. Perry is a self-made man and his success is due 
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JOHN WESLEY TRUEWORTII V, Los Angeles 

Born Troy, N. Y., May 2S, 1843. Educated public 
schools and Hillsboro (111.) Academy. Private 
soldier <»th 111. Inf. Civil war. Grad. Rush Med. 
Coll., Chicago, Jan. 2."), 1865. Practiced med. since. 
Came to Los Angeles from Kansas C'ity, Mo., 1892. 
Mem. American Med. Assn.; Calif. State Med. So- 
ciety; Los Angeles Co. Med. Soc. ; So. Calif. Dis- 
trict Med. Soc; ex-Pres. Los Angeles Academy of 
Med.; ex-Mem. Pan-.American Med. Assn. Pres. 
Los Angeles Pub. Library; app. mem. Library ltd. 
.^pril 2, 1901. Mem. California, LTniversity and Sierra 
Clubs, Sequoya League and Archeological Society; 
Knight Templar and Shriner. 



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ROBERT A. lOWI.KK. Los Angeles 
Born Glenwood, la., Marcli l:i, 1S71. Educated 
public schools of Glenwood and grammar and high 
schools of Los Angeles. Came to Los i\ngeles De- 
cember, 1884; February, 1888, engaged in book and 
stationery business with firm of Fowler & Colwell, 
which name was changed in 1899 to that of Fowler 
Brothers. Is also interested in Los Angeles realty 
and is the owner of valuable property. Meml)er 
Union League and Jonathan clubs and Young Men's 
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OTTO WEJD, Ocean Park 
Born N'allejo, Calif., Dec. 9, 1868. Educated public 
schools and a graduate Santa Clara Coll. 1S89. Since 
1903 has been engaged in the real estate business, 
office 614 O. T. Johnson Bldg., I.os Angeles, Holly- 
wood Park Place tract and Edgewood Park Place 
tract are among some of the important interests that 
he has handled. Also the owner of valuable business 
property in Los Angeles. Married March 7, 190.5, 
Miss Eleanor I. Tnttle, a native of Peoria, 111. He 
is a Scottish Rite Mason and a Republican in poli- 
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REUBEN r,. SIMONS, Los Angeles 

Born Birniingliam, England, Dec. 14, 1S55. Brought 
to Albany, N. Y., ISTjO, and 3 857 to Iowa, where 
lie attended iniblic schools. April, 1SS8, came to 
Los Angeles from Shenandoah, la. Since 1888 
been identified with the Standard Brick Co. ; also 
Pres. Bay City Brick Co.. of San Francisco. Since 
eleven years of age has been identified with brick 
manufacture. Married June, 1876, Miss Jennie N'an 
Scyoc, a native of Mifflin, Pa.; four sons and four 
daughters. The sons, John V., Ralph, Harold \y. 
and Robert T., connected with father in brick busi- 
ness. Mr. Simons is mem. B. P. O. E., and Re- 
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JOHN P. GREELEY, Wiiittier. 
Born Belfast, Me., March 28, 1860. Educated Cas- 
tine (Me.) Normal School and Orono State School. 
After teaching six years in Maine came to Los 
.\ngeles county, in 1884, and for a number of years 
taught school in Los Angeles Co. Then fourteen 
years Co. Supt. schools of Orange Co. March 1, 
1905, appointed Supt. Whittier State School, which 
position he is no'v most acceptably filling. Mem. 
lonathan Club of Los Angeles, Knight Templar 
Mason, also membtr K. of P., L O. O. F., and B. 
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E. A. FORRESTER, Los Angeles 

One of the careers interwoven with the develojinient of 
Los Angeles since 18S5 has been that of E. A. Forrester, 
whose commercial and moral worth has been consistent 
with the highest type of citizenship of this or any 
city. Of rugged Scotch ancestry, he was born in Bridge 
port. Conn., l)cc. rf7, 183'2. and was educated at the pub 
lie schools and Rodgersville Union Seminary, New York 
He has been closely identified with public interests of 
Los Angeles. He promoted and named "VVestlake Park,'' 
1890 to 1895 on Pioard of County Supervisors during com 
pletion of court house and grounds, president of Y. M 
C. A. from 1889 to 1899, one of the incorporators of 
Chamber of Commerce, and member of Los Angelee 
Realty Board. At present largely interested in real es- 
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EDWIN O. PALMER, Hollywood. 

Born Schenectady, N. Y., June 17, 1872. Educated 
Chatham Union Academy. Grad. College Physicians 
and Surgeons. N. Y. City, 1806, and Lebanon Hos- 
pital. 1897; 1897-1900 asst. attending physician out- 
patient dept. Roosevelt Hospital in addition to regu- 
lar practice. Came to Hollywood 1900, practicing 
here since. City Healt)i Officer of Hollywood. Mem. 
Los Angeles Co. Med. Soc. and American Med. 
Assn. 1905 elected Pres. Hollywood Nat'l Bank. 
Jan. 1, 1900, elected Pres. Citizens' Savings Bank of 
Hollywood. Married, 1903, Miss Genevieve O'Brien, 
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EDWIN VV. FREEMAN, Los Angeles 

Born Galesville. Wis., Oct. 1, 18G0. Educated public 
schools and Galesville University. Studied law in 
his father's office, .\dmitted bar 188G. Came to So. 
California 1887. Practice since — generally confined to 
water and corporation cases. 189.5 elected Cal. As- 
sembly, being the first assemblyman for the new Co. 
of Riverside. Me was a resident of Corona eight 
years, and in addition to his practice was Pres. of 
the Citizens' Bank. Came to Los Angeles 1899. 
Married, 1890, to Miss Maude Fauver, who died in 
1895 at Sacramento. Aug. 10, 1904, married to Miss 
Carrie Stone of Chicago. In politics a Republican. 



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ARTHUR C. IJARl'KK, Los Angeles 

Born Columbus, Miss., March 13, 1866; resident of 
Los Angeles since 1868. Educated public schools and 
Univ. So. Cal. Dir. Harper & Reynolds Hardware 
Co.; V'ice-Pres. and Dir. Sentous Packing Co.; Pres. 
and Dir. San Cleniente Wool Co.: Pres. and Dir. St. 
Louis Fire Brick & Clay Co. Elected cashier State 
Rank &■ Trust Co. Feb. 1, 1906. Married Oct. 18, 
18S7, Miss Minnie Hamilton, a native of Georgia. 
Mem. Tonathan and Tammany Clubs. Knight Tem- 
plar, 32d degree Mason and Shriner. Well known 
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H. W. [JRODBECK, Los Angeles. 
Dr. Brodbcck is a native of Lavvrenceburg, Indiana. 
In 1S9(T he became a resident of this city, and since 
which time he has been eminently successful in the 
practice of his profession. In April, 1891, he was 
elected superintendent of the Pirst Methodist Epis- 
copal Sunday school, and enjoys tlie distinction of 
having served in this position for nearly sixteen 
years, during which time the school has become the 
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BRADXER WELLS LEE, Los Angeles 

Born E. Groveland, N. Y., May 4, 1850. Moved to Holly 
Springs, Miss., 1871. where he studied law, coming from 
there to Los Angeles. Became member firm Brunson, 
Wells & Lee, now Works, Lee & Works, in Hellman 
Bldg. Since 1896 chairman Los Angeles Co. Rep. Cent. 
Com. and mem. State Exec. Com 1002-04; 1808 elected 
member Bd. Trustees .State Library and still serving; 
1006 Chairman L. A. Co. Rep. Convention; Dir. and 
Treas. Calif. Soc. Sons of Rev. since 1804; charter mem- 
ber and Chancellor Calif. Soc. Colonial Wars, and \'.- 
Commander C;i1. Commandery. Military Order Foreign 
Wars; member L. A. Bar Assn., Chamber of Commerce. 
Union League and Jonathan Clubs, L. A. Commandery 
K. T., Al Malaikah Temple Mystic Shrine. Married, 
188.3, Helena Farrar, daughter Col. Wm. Humphrey 
Farrar. 



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WALTER ROM AVNE BACON, Los Angeles 
Born in Mexico, Miami Co., [nd., Sept. 14, 1857. 
Educated public schools. 1873 removed to Grand 
Island, Neb.: read law in office of Thummel and 
Piatt, Grand Lsland; admitted to practice 1884. 
Elected District Attorney Hall County, Neb., 1885. 
served four years: came to Los Angeles 1891; prac- 
ticed since. Member Jonathan and Union League 
Clubs: mom. and eight years Pres. So. California 
Historical Society; mem. and officer Archeological 
Society of America. Married, 1880, Miss Evelyn F. 
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THEOOORK SUMMKRLAND, Los Angei.es 
Born Carlisle, Pa., 1852. Came to Northern Cal., 
1861. Attended country schools. Resident of Los 
Angeles since 1877. Engaged in the insurance busi- 
ness. In politics a Republican. 1888 to 1892 member 
City Council, Eighth ward; 1902 elected assessor Los 
Angeles Co., and served four years; 1902 elected 
City Council, Fourth ward; now Pres. of Council. 
Mem. Union League Club and Republican League 
of Cal.; B. P. O. E., K. of P. and F. & A. M. 



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CHARLES EWIXG, South Pasadena 
Born Nebraska City, Neh., October 4, 1865. Gradu- 
ated Drury College, Springfield. Mo., 1887. Engaged 
in the national banking business since 1887, resign- 
ing as cashier First Nat'l Bank, Springfield, Mo., 
189.3; 1S95 to 190-1 with the Bankers' Nat'l Bank 
of Chicago; resigning as assistant cashier he came to 
Los Angeles and is now cashier Nat'l Bank of Com- 
merce in Los Angeles. Married. 1S91, Miss Dora 
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OSCAR C. MUELLER, Los Angeles 
Born Denver, Colo., September 7. 1876. Educated 
Los Angeles public schools, Occidental College and 
Law Dept. University of Virginia. Since his ad- 
mission to bar, in October, 1897, has been engaged 
in practice — principally of corporation law and pro- 
bate matters. Director in many corporations. Mem. 
California and Jonathan CUibs. Married April 5, 
l!)On, Miss Ivy Schoder of Los Angeles. 



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G. \V. E. GRIFFITH, Los Angeles 
Born Tippecanoe Co., Ind., Dec. 22, 1833. Educated 
Mt. Pleasant (Pa.) Colleare; 1855 located Franklin Co., 
Kansas; served as County Commissioner, Register of 
Deeds, Clerk, Treasurer, then elected to Legislature; 
spring 1S63 moved to Lawrence and established mercan- 
tile business; August. 180.S. was burned out during Quan- 
trell raid, which left him penniless; re-established busi- 
ness, which became one of the largest in the state; 1870 
sold, and organized Second National Bank, and after- 
wards Merchants' Nat'l Bank at Lawrence, of which 
he was president until he sold his interest. Came to 
Los Angeles 1900: laid out Griffith tract 1902; organ 
ized Bank of Highland Park 1900, and is its president; 
designed and built bank building. 5700 Pasadena Ave. 
Married. 1854, Miss Priscilla A. Horbach. of Mt. 
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CHARLES MILTON STIMSON, Los Angeles 

Born at Gray, Me., Jan. 5, 1842. Educated public 
schools. In 1865 moved to Washington, Fayette Co., 
O., where he was enjraged in merchandising and the 
wholesale grocery business. 1870-85; since 1885 a 
resident of Los Angeles; capitalist and active in busi- 
ness affairs: 1904 he erected, at a cost of twenty thou- 
sand dollars, and gave to Occidental College and tlie 
citizens of Highland Park, the Chas. M. Stimson 
Library. Mem. Chamber of Commerce, Union League 
club and Immanuel Presbyterian Church. 



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JOHN A. MF.RRILL, Los Angeles 
Born Bsloit, \\'is., March 4, lSi9. Graduated Be 
loit College, class 1872. Came to California 1873 
For a number of years was interested in and a di 
rector of a number of irrigation enterprises; or 
ganized and built up Manhattan Beach Co.; now Pres 
Riverside Heights Co., Glendale Realty Co. and Cal 
Homeseekers Co., and Dir. Bank of Highland Park 
and deeply interested in Occidental College, Union 
Rescue Mission and other philanthropic enterprises. 
Married, 1870, Miss M.nri.T Durham, of I'.eloit, Wis, 



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THOMAS III'C-.HF.S, I.os Angeles 

Born on banks of Monongahela river, Greene Co., 
Pa., August -'a, 1850. Educated public schools. Left 
Pennsylvania 1878, and until 188.S was on the west- 
ern borders of New Mexico and Arizona. Came to 
Los Angeles 1883, and since ISS."! engaged in the 
planing mill business: now president Hughes Mfg. 
Co.; since 1893 has also been interested in oil busi- 
ness. PoliticaPy a Republican, and as such has been 
a leader of party affairs for ten years: member B. P. 
O. E. and the Union League Club, of which he was 
one of the founders. Married, 1883, Miss Cassia 
.Sweet, a native of New York state. 



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l-REDEUIC W. GR'J.GG, Redlands. 

Born Northfield, Vt.. December 25, 1856. Educated 
grammar and high schools of Northfield, Vt., and a 
graduate Hartmoulh College, class 1878. Studied 
law in office of Hon. Frank Plumley, Northfield, Vt., 
and at Columbia Law School. Admitted to bar 1881. 
Located in Tucson, Ariz., 1881. Judge County 
Court, Pima Co., 18S5-1SS7. Came to San Bernar- 
dino, 1887, and in practice since. Many years act- 
ive in Republican politics. Member University and 
Country Clubs of Redlands. Married July 31, 1901, 
Miss Agnes 'I". Wilson, of Los Angeles, who died 
.\pril 30, 1!)0G. 



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CHARLES CASSAT DAVIS, Los Angeles 

Born 1851, Cincinnati, O., of Welsh and Huguenot 
stock. Ed pub. sch. : grad. at Ohio W'esleyan Univ. 
1873, degree of A. R. 'and 1876 A. M. Graduated at 
Columbia Collepe Law School 1875. In Ohio Legis. 
1880-1881. Atty. for Ohio State S. P. C. A. five yrs. 
Removed to Los Angeles 1885; director S. P. C. A. 
six yrs.; mem. L. A. Bd. of Ed. 1897-98-99 and 1900; 
pres last three yrs; in 1904 elec. to "'Non-partisan" 
T?d. of Ed., from which resigned in spring 1906; 
Pres. L. A. Co. Higliway Commission 1904-05; Dir. 
of Municipnl League 1900-05; .^tty. for League in 
Davenport "recall" suit; Pres. Economic League two 
yrs.; Dir. Landmarks Club; mem. advisory board 
Southwestern ,\rcheological Soc. ; mem. Sunset. Jon- 
athan, Universitv and Sesame Clubs. 



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RICHARD W. PRIDIIAM, South Pasadena 

Born London, Canada, March 7, 1856. Educated in 
public schools of Toronto, Canada, where later he 
learned the book-binder's trade. Coming to Los 
Angeles in 1SS2, Mr. Pridham established first paper 
box manufacturing business in the city, and has since 
been engaged in the book-binding, printing and paper 
box manufacturing business. He is a member of the 
Chamber of Commerce, Dir. Merchant and Manu^ 
factures' Assn., a member of the City & County 
Consolidation Com., and chairman of the City Board 
of Trustees of South Pasadena; member of Jonathan 
and Union League clubs. June .S, 1801, married Miss 
Alathea L. Hait, of Westchester Co., New York. 



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WILLIAM M. HI ATT, Los Angeles 
Born I.ynnville, la., March 24, 1868. Educated Penn 
College, Oskaloosa, la.; came to Southern California 
1887, and from that date until 1891 was engaged in 
newspaper work. Admitted to the bar 1893; prac- 
ticed since. Member ISar Association, Chamber of 
Commerce, Jonathan and Union League Clubs. Mar- 
ried August 4, 191."^, Miss Clara Meredith, of Oska- 
loosa. la. 



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C:HAPiMAX, Los Angeles. 



Educator, preacher, lecturer, re^'ormer. Born De- 
fiance Co., Ohio, 1838. Married Adelia Haymaker 
1860. Clerk to committee on Territories in Con- 
gress, 1864 to 1869: anti-slavery lecturer and Re- 
publican politii^ian from boyhood to 1870; pastor in 
Ohio, Wyomint; and California, 1870 to 1S9S. when 
he became superintendent of the Anti-Saloon I^eague 
of California, in which he has been eminently suc- 
cessful. He is in great demand as an anti-saloon 
lecturer throughout the nation. 



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JAMES CALHOUN DRAKE, Los Angeles 
Bom Arkansas, 1S58. Graduated U. S. Naval Acad- 
emy, Annapolis, Md., 1880; continued in naval serv- 
ice through grades of Midshipman, Ensign and Lieu- 
tenant until 1895, when he resigned and entered civil 
life in Los Angeles. President Los Angeles Trust 
Co.; Director First Nat'l Bank, German-American 
Savings Bank and Edison Electric Co. Member 
California club. Married, 1S9.3, Miss Fanny Wilcox, 
of San Francisco. 



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JACOB BEAX, Alhambra 

Born Upper Stillwater, Maine, January 19, 1837. 
Educated public scliools. Married October 14, 1860, 
Miss Cynthia Allen McPheters, of Orono, Maine, 
lias five children living. After five years in the lum- 
ber business in Maine removed to Stillwater, Minne- 
sota, where he has continued in lumber business for 
forty years. Since 1893 has been a resident of Al 
hambra, where he has a one-hundred-acre orange 
grove, containing about nine thousand, five hundred 
trees, bearing, 1905-6, sixty-two cars oranges. In 
politics a Republican. 



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E. J. LOUIS, Los Angeles 

Born Prussia, of American parentage. Graduated San 
Diego, Cal., Iiigh school, 1885; began newspaper work 
1895. Twelve years with Russ Lumber & Mill Co., 
San Diego, during which time was appointed Vice-Consul 
of Peru, being accredited by President McKinley. Later 
became special agent and adjuster for Fire Assn. of 
Philadelphia and Philadelphia Underwriters for So. Calif., 
Ariz, and Nev. ; 1001 organized Louis Underwriters' 
Agency of Los Angeles, of which he is official head. 
Commissioned Commander and Gov. Pardee's Naval Rep- 
resentative on Military Staff 1903. Mem. LInion League 
Club; a 32nd Degree Mason and Shriner, Past Grand 
Officer of Masonic Grand Lodge of California, and at 
present is Pros, of the Newport Bay Investment Co. 
of California. 



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O. J. WIGDAL, Los Angeles 
Born Morrisonville, Wis.. 1861. Educated public 
schools. Remained on farm until twenty years of 
age. 1881 removed to Albert Lea, Minn., where 
later was Asst. Postmaster three years, and subse- 
quently Asst. Cashier First Nat'l Bank. Came to 
Los Angeles 1887; resigned as Asst. Cashier Los 
.\ngeles Nat'l Bank 1904, having been connected 
with that institution seventeen years. Assisted in or- 
ganizing Home Savings Bank and is its cashier. 
Member I'nion League Club. Married, 1887, Miss 
Emma T. Halvorsen. 



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1-:. E. SELPII. Los Angeles 
Born Salem, Oregon, December 3, 1860. Educated 
public schools and McMinnville (Oregon) College. 
Read law in the office of W. D. Fenton. Portland; 
practiced in Oregon until 1S9S, Los Angeles since. 
Ajipointcd Deputy Attorney General for California, 
]!»0(). Knight Templar and .Shriner, Past Master 
Palestine Lodge, A. !•". & A. M., Los Angeles. Re- 
publican in politics. Married, ISSC, Miss Liila B. 
Gwinn, of Oregon. Two sons, Ewald and Raymond. 



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NEWTON W. THOMPSON, Alhambra 

Born Pulaski, N. Y., Sept. 16, 1865. Educated Pu- 
laski Academy. Resident of So. California since 
18S5, and since 1SS7 engaged in business of examin- 
ing realty titles. Has been connected with the 
Title Insurance & Trust Co. since its organization. 
Active in Republican politics twelve years. Pres. 
Bd. Trustees of Alhambra since its organization. 1904 
elected to Gen. Assembly, 69th Dis. Member Union 
League Club. Married Nov. 11, 1891. :Miss Elizabeth 
M. Lloyd of Pulaski, N. Y. 



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JOHN L. TATTERSON, I-os Angeles 

Born Rockford, 111., son of Alexander Patterson, a 
native of Scotland, who came to U. S. in 1835, lo- 
cating in Chicago, and in 1837 removed to Rock- 
ford, which was first known as Middletown and then 
Winnebago. He died in Rockford in 1880. John L. 
Patterson educated in public schools. A Civil war 
soldier, member Co. B, 146th HI. Inf. Was engaged 
in mercantile business in Rockford, III., twenty-seven 
years. Came to Los Angeles 1889. Since 1895 en- 
gaged in real estate, loans and investment business. 
Office, 240 Douglas Bldg., I-os Angeles. Membei 
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THOMAS R. GABEL, Los Angeles 
Born Fredericton, N. B.. Canada. Entered Ry. service 
April 30, 1877. April .SO. 1877, to 1880, was clerk Gen. 
Freight Dept. Central \'ermont R. R. at St. Albans, \'t. ; 
1880 to Oct., 1S83, Chief Clerk Gen. Freight Dept., same 
road; Oct., ISSS, to Sept., 1885. Clerk to Gen. Mgr. Mex- 
ican Cent. R. R., Me.xico; Sept., 1885, to Nov., 1886. 
Chief Clerk to Gen. Men Atlan. .<v Pac. R. R.; Nov., 
1880, to Feb., 1887, Acting Gen. Supt. same road; Feb., 
1887, to Aug., 1887. Gen. Material Agt. Colo. Midland 
R. R.; ./Kug. 1S88, to Sept.. 1801, Chief Clerk to Gen. 
Mgr. Atlan. & Pac. R. R. ; Sept. 1, 1891, to Jan. 1. 1805, 
Cien. Supt. same road. 1805 to 1901 engaged principally 
m mining. Entered service of Los Angeles-Pacific R. 
R. in 1001 and app. Gen. TraL Mgr. Julv 1, 1003; Nov. 
1, 190:5, appointed Gen. Supt.; and Feb. 1, 1900, app. 
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F. W. BLANCHARD, Los Angeles 
Born Boston, Mass., August 26. 1S64. Educated 
Boston Latin school, class 1SS2. For twenty years 
prominently iaentified with the promotion of Music, 
.Art, and Science in Los Angeles, having erected the 
largest studio building devoted exclusively to Music, 
Art, and Science in the United States. Member L. 
A. Country Club, Ganntt Club, Chamber of Commerce, 
and Sec'y Municipal Art Commission of Los An- 
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WILLIAM N'ICTOR HOLLEY, Los Angeles 
I5orn near Paris, III., Jan. 9, 1866. Educated public 
schools. Manager Traveler's Instirance Co. of Hart- 
ford, Conn., for So. Ohio for several years and later 
for the same company in So. Calif.: now president 
C.cneral Securities Co. of Los Angeles; Pres. Tem- 
pered Ductile Metals Co. and an officer in several 
successful mining enterprises. Fraternally, a Mason 
and B. P. O. E. 



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JACOB E. MEYER, Los Angeles 
Born St. Eouis, Mo., November 17, 1876. Educated 
public schools of New Orleans, I-a. Came to Los 
Angeles 1900. Now President Standard Mines Co. 
of California, and .Secy. General Securities Co. of 
Los Angeles. Married, December 25, 1903, Miss 
Nellie E. Simpson, of San Diego, Calif. Member 
K. of P. and Improved Order of Red Men. 



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NORMAN F. MARSH, South Pasadena 

Born Upper Alton, 111., July 16, 1871. Graduated 
Upper Al<on High .'^chool. Obtained literary and 
scientific education at Shurtleff College, Upper Alton, 
and his technical training at the University of Illi- 
nois. Since 189S engaged in practice as an archi- 
tect. Came to Los Angeles in 1900, and in his work 
here may be creditably noted l-'irst Baptist Church 
of Pasadena. City of \'enice. High School bldg. of 
So. Pasadena and the First M. K. Church of Long 
Beach. Thirty-second Degree Mason and member 
First Baptist Church of Los Angeles. Married, 1901, 
Miss Cora U. Cairns of Polo, HI. 



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JOHN A. riRTLE, Los Angeles 
Born Clai-kesville, Tenn., ]S5fi. Graduated St. 

John's Military College, Little Rock, Arkansas, 1872. 
Many years engaged as broker of stocks and bonds. 
Came to Los Angeles 1887. Engaged in banking 
1904, and 1906 founded Bank of Los Angeles, of 
which he is President. Bank located Ale.Nandria Hotel 
Building. One of the leaders in improvement of 
Broadway, and also engineered and financed West 
Los .\n£eles Water Works System. 



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ABBOT KINNEY, Venice 

Born I'rookside, N. J., Nov., 1850. Came to Calif. 
1873, and resident continuously since 1880. Was for -1 
years Climn. Calif. State Bd. Forestry; Special 
Comm'r Mission Indians, with Helen Hunt Jackson; 
officer Egvpt, on U. S. Geol. Survey, 1873; Maj. 
Calif. Nat. Guard, etc. Past Pres. So. Calif. Acad. 
Sciences, So. Caliit. Poinol. .Soc. ; \'. Pres. .\ni. For- 
estry Assn. for Calif.; \'. Pres. Water & Forestry 
Assn. of Los Angeles Co.; V. Pres. So. Calif. Forest 
& Water Soc. Author, "Conquest of Death," 1893; 
"Tasks by Twilisjht," 18!)3 ; "Eucalyptus," 1S9.5; 
"Forest & Water," 1001. Promoter and builder of 
\'enice of America, 190(). Mason and mem. Univ. 
and Ocean Park Country Clubs. 



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WESLEY WILBUR BECKETT, Los Angeles 

Born Forest Grove, Washington Co., (Oregon. Mov- 
ing to California when a boy, was educated in this 
state. Began active life as teacher in San Luis, 
Obispo Co.. where for three years was Deputy Supt. 
Schools. Gradviated in medicine 18SS from College 
of Medicine, University So. Calif., and after course 
at Post-Graduate Medical School, N. Y. City, prac- 
ticed in Los Angeles. Member American Medical 
Assn.. California State Medical Assn., So. Califor- 
nia Medical Society, Los Angeles County Medical 
Society and L. A. Pathological Society. Member 
Calif. Club, K. T. and Mason. Director of Pacific 
Mutual Life Insurance Companv and Broadway 
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CHARLES FLETCHER LU.M^[1S, Los Angeles 

Author and Americanist, born Lynn, Mass., March 1, 
1859. Grad. Harvard Coll.. class 1881. Came to Los 
Angeles ISSt. \'.-Pres. Amer. Folklore Soc. 1903; 
founder and still Pres. Landmarks Club, 1S95; founder 
and Chairman Ex. Com. Sequoya league; founder and 
Secy. Southwest Soc. (A. I. A.); Librarian L. A. Pub. 
Library, June 27, 190.5; Councilor Calif. I'olklore Soc, 
1905. Editor "Out West" Magazine since 1894. City 
Ed. Los Angeles Times, 188.5-8. Author of "A New 
Mexico David," "A Tramp Across the Continent," "Some 
Strange Corners of our Country," "The Spanish Pio- 
neers," "The Man who Married the Moon," "The 
Awakening of a Nation," and numerous others. Married 
Mch. 27, 1891, Miss Eva Frances Douglas (of New 
Haven, Conn.), at San P.ernardino. Calif. 



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THADDEUS S. C. LOWE, Pasadena 

American inventor and scientist. Born Jefferson, N. H.. 
Aug. 20, 183?. Constructed balloons in 1856-58-59 in 
order to study atmospheric phenomena, and during Civil 
War was chief of aeronautic corps. Devised system of 
signaling in 1862, and valuable instruments for atmos- 
pheric investigation, etc., constructed and operated largest 
aerostat ever built, invented compression ice machine 
and made first artificial ice in the U. S. (1865). Also 
refrigerated first steamshiii for food transportation. Es- 
tablished the Lowe (1bservator\' in the Sierra Madre 
Mountains, Cal., and built Mount Lowe R. R. Inventor 
of water gas system which revolutionized the gas in- 
dustry. — Encyclopedia Americana. Later, invented im- 
proved metallurgical coke ovens. 



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GRENVILLE C. EMERV, Los Angeles 

Born in RipUy, Somerset Co., Maine, 1843. Received 
the degree of A.B., Bates College, 1868; A. M., 
1869. Instructor in Mathematics, Maine State Sem- 
inary, JStiO; Principal Iligli School and Superin- 
tendent of Schools, Auburn, Maine, 1870-1871; Prin- 
cipal, High School, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1872 
Usher and Sub-Master, Lawrence Grammar School 
Boston, 187-MS8]: Student University of Gottingen 
Germany. 1881-188?; Master in Boston Latin School 
1,'S82-1«'.I7: Principal Los Angeles Military Academy 
1897-1899; Litt. D., Bates College, 1904; Headmas 
ter of Harvard School, Los Angeles, 1900-. 



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ERNEST CARROLL MOORE, Los Angeles 
Born July 20, 1871, Youngstown, O. Attended public 
schools and Rayen High School. Teacher in elementary 
schools. A.P... from Ohio Normal Univ., 1892; LL.B., 
1894; M.A., Columbia Univ., 1896; Ph. D., Univ. of 
Chicago, 1898. Married 1896 Dr. Dorothea Lummis. 
Admitted to Ohio Bar 1893; Fellow in Education, Univ. 
of Chicago, 1897-8: Inst, in Philosophy, I'niv. of Calif., 
1898-01; Inst, in Education, 1901-02. Asst. Prof, in 
Educ, Univ. of Calif., 1902-06; Advisory Editor Western 
Journal of Education. 1903 — ; .Author magazine articles, 
l)amphlets, monographs, etc.; Pres. Calif. State Board 
of Charities and Corrections, 1903 — ; Phi Beta Kappa 
Orator, Stanford Univ., 190.5; Exec. Secy. Amer. Nat. 
Red Cross, S. F., April-May, 1906; Dean Summer Ses- 
sion, Univ. of Calif., 190.'j-07; Sunt, of Schools, Los 
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CHARLES P. V. WATSOX. Los Angeles 
Born Genesee Co., X. Y., 1S43. Graduate Aliens 
Grove Academy and Wisconsin State Normal School. 
Also graduate Pennsylvania Medical College. En- 
gaged in practice in Northern Illinois and Rochester, 
X. Y.. for three years. Came to Calif. 1873 and to 
Los Angeles 1893. In addition to his practice, is in- 
terested in nine different corporations, which are ex- 
tensive, a Director in all and President of five. He 
is a member of six of the most prominent fraternal 
orders. 



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ROBERT WANKOWSKI, Los Angeles 

Born in New York City December 15, 1874. Educat- 
ed in public scboo^s of New York and Los Angeles. 
Resident of Los Angeles since 1883. Clerk to Su- 
perintendent Citv Schools of Los Angeles 1890 to 
1893. Willi the State Bank and Trust Company 1893 
to 1903. Since 1903 Cashier of Los Angeles Trtist 
Company. Brigadier General commanding First Brig- 
ade, N. G. C, since 1903. having been a member of 
the Nationnl Guard since ISfll. Served during Span- 
ish-American War as Captain Company "A," Sev- 
enth California Infantry. U. S. V. Vice President 
and Director Jonathan Club. Married September, 
1906, Miss Maud Reese Davies of Los Angeles. 



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J. HARVEV McCarthy, Los Angelf.s 

IJorii San Diego, Cal., May 4, ]S70. Graduated Lau- 
rel Hill Military Academy. San Mateo Co., Cal., 
1886. Engaged mercantile business Siempreviva, 
San Diego Co., 1888-1892. In connection with his 
father, D. O. McCarthy, in 1892 established San 
Diego Daily I'dctte. Thev also organized the Mount 
Tecarte Land >S; Water Co., which later became So. 
Cal. Water Co. Came to Lo.s .Angeles 19ni and 1903. 
also with his father, organized Pioneer Investment & 
Trust Co.. of which he is Pres. Delegate National 
Democratic Convention, St. Louis, 1904. Married 
Mary Louise Patterson, Ani:. 27, 1906. Member B. 
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CHARLES HULBERT TOLL, Los Angeles 

Born Clinton, la.. November 21, 1858. ^ Attended 
public schools there and college at ^It. \'ernon, la. 
Began to earn living in factory at Clinton. Served 
as Deputy County Clerk and Deputy Postmaster at 
Clinton. Came to Los Angeles Sept., 1885. Con- 
ducted grocery two years. Served as credit man for 
wholesale grocery store seven years. Councilman of 
Fifth Ward four years. Cashier and Director Cali- 
fornia Sa\ings Rank past five years. Member Sun- 
set, Jonathan and Union League Clubs, Merchants' 
& Manuf. Assn., Municipal League and Chamber of 
Commerce. Married September 4, 1901, Miss Elea- 
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WILLIAM R. ROWLAND, Los Angeles 

For many yeais engaged in the oil production busi- 
ness. Since 1880 he has been interested in the Pu- 
ente oil district, being now president of the Puente 
Oil Company of California, the offices of which are 
located in the Douglas Building in Los Angeles. Mr. 
Rowland became a member of the Chamber of Com- 
iiu-rce in r-iOO. 



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ISIDORE E. DOCKWEILER, Los Angeles 

B. at Los -Angeles Dec. 2S. 1867, his father, Henry 
Dockweiler, being a r>avarian ; his mother, Margaretha 
Sugg, an \lsatian. Ed. at Saint \'incent's Coll., Los 
Angeles, from which he received a Commercial Diploma 
in 1883 and degree of A.B. in 1887, A.M. in 1889, 
and Iionorary degree of LL.M. in 1905. Employed as 
bookkeeper 1883-r), and in surveying 1887-8. Adm. to 
Cal. bar Oct. 14, 1889. and thereafter to bar of Federal 
Courts in Cal. Married Gertrude Reeve June 30, 
1891. Director Los Angeles Public Library 1897-99. 
and 1901-07. Trustee of Saint Vincent's Coll. since 
Oct. 1, 1890. Trustee of State Normal School at San 
Diego, Cal.. since Dec. 1898. Candidate for Lieut. 
Gov. of Cal. on Dem. ticket in 1903. Recognized law- 
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SIDNEY ALCOTT BUTLER, Los Angeles 

Corn Milwaukee, Wis., March 10, 1S4!). Educated 
pub. schools. August, ISOS. enlisted Co. A. First 
Wis. Artillery — mustered out at close of war. In 
business life for six years as contractor and builder 
of public utilities. For twenty years in the express 
business; resigning- Jan. 100 i. as Asst. Gen. .Agt. 
W'ells-Fargo Co. at San Francisco; then returned to 
Los Angeles and for fifteen montlis Purchasing Agt. 
Pacific Light and Power Co. Xow engaged in the 
real estate business. Alem. Los .'\ngeles Commandery, 
\o. 9, K. T., and Scottish Rite. Married 1869 Miss 
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WILLIAM H. TOWNSEND, Hollywood 

Born Iowa City, la., September 15, 1861. Received 
public school and business college education. Re- 
sided in California since 187C, and since 1903 at 
Fay Nill;;, Hollywood. Engaged in real estate busi- 
ness (locally) since 1891, and since 1903 engaged 
in colonization projects in California. His Fay N'illa 
property consists of five acres. Member Jonathan 
and Hollywood Clubs, and a Mason and K. of P. 
fraternally. Republican in politics. Married 1900 
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DANIEL AlARRIOX IIAM.MACK, Los Angeles 

Born Mercer Co., Illinois. Tamiary 31, 1S4S. Ciradu 
ated Monmouth (111.) Coll., A. B., 1869 and A. M 
187.0. 1870-3 engaged in newspaper work at Bur 
lington, la. Admitted to 111. Bar, 1870; Iowa Bar 
1875. Practiced in Iowa until 1888, then, until 1901 
at San Diego, Calif. Came to Los Angeles 1901 
Practiced here since. Dean Los Angeles Coll. of 
Law. 1901 to 1904. Mason: K.lder Highland Park 
Presbyterian Church. Been candidate for Superior 
Judge in both Iowa and Cal.. on Dem. ticket. Mar- 
ried 187,5 Miss Isabella, daughter of late Judge 
Tames II. Stewart of Monmouth, 111. Has daughter, 
Eleanor Stewart, who graduted from Cal. State Univ. 
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ALRKRT KFETH SMILKV. Kedlands 
Kducator and philanthropist; born in Vassalboro, 
Maine, Mar. 17, 182S. Grad. Harvard, 1849 (A. M., 
also A. M., Brown) ; Prin. Friends' Boarding School. 
Providence, R. I., 10 years. Bought 1,000 acres of 
land Ulster Co.. N. Y., and built a hotel where wine, 
cards and dancing are prohibited. Mem. Bd. U. S. 
Indian Cotn. since 1879. Each fall upwards 200 
guests invited to discuss Indian affairs; Spring, 
conference International Arbitration. In 189S pre- 
sented library building and adjoining park to City 
of Redlands. Mem. J'.d. of Trustees, Brown Univ. ; 
also mem. original Bd. of Trustees of Brvn Mawr 
Coll.; mem. Bd. of Pomona Coll.; Pres. i5d. Trus- 
tees N. Y. State yormal School, New Platz, N. Y. 
.\ddress: summer, Mohonk Lake, Ulster Co., X. Y. ; 
winter. Canon Crc=t Park, Redlands, Cal. 



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IIAkRISCiN ALBRIGH T, Los Angeles 

Born Ogontz, Penn., May 17, 1S6C. Educated Pierce 
College of Business, Spring Garden Institute, Philadel- 
phia; 1886 to 1S91 practiced architecture in Philadelphia; 
1891 located in Charleston, W. \'a. ; 1900 began limit- 
ing practice to designing and supervising construction 
of fire-proof hotels throughout the South and middle 
West; 1905 came to I,os Angeles. March 28, 1905, ad- 
mitted to practice Architecture in Cal., since been engaged 
on following v.nrk: Homer I.aughlin Rldg. Annex and 
Citizens Nat'l Bank Bldg.. Los Angeles; U. S. Grant 
Hotel and John D. Spreckels Bldg., San Diego, Cal.; 
hotels, depots, round houses, etc., for the A., T. & S. F. 
Ry. Co. at various pr.ints. Member of American Insti- 
tutes of Architects and Jonatiian Club. 



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FKEDKKICK U. ]!U TTERFIELD, Los Angeles 

Son of David and Elmira Ward (Randall) Butter- 
field, born in Rockingham, Vt.. May 14th, 1S3S. 
Educated pu'ilic schools and Saxtons' River Acad- 
emy. Enlisted in the Civil War as private in Co. B, 
8th \'t. \'ols. ; was successively -promoted to 2d 
lieut., J St lieut. and capt. Was appointed 188S 
aide-de-camp witli rank of Col. on staff of Gov. Wm. 
P. Dillingham of Vt. Is V.-P. of Los Angeles Olive 
Growers' Association, and Pres. of Butterfield & Co., 
Derby Line, Vt. ; a K. T.. and member Loyal Legion 
and Sons of the American Revolution. Married 1868 
Ellen [. Morrill of Stanstead, Canada, who died 
in 187J; married 1801 Ellen Goodridge Cutter of 
San Francisco. 



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